Bug 1778620 (CVE-2019-15961)

Summary: CVE-2019-15961 clamav: long scanning time of specially crafted email file leads to denial of service
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: msiddiqu
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Bug Depends On: 1778621, 1778622    
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Description msiddiqu 2019-12-02 08:45:05 UTC 
A Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability may occur when scanning a specially crafted email file as a result of excessively long scan times. The issue is resolved by implementing several maximums in parsing MIME messages and by optimizing use of memory allocation.

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https://blog.clamav.net/2019/11/clamav-01021-and-01015-patches-have.html
Comment 1 msiddiqu 2019-12-02 08:45:42 UTC 
Created clamav tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1778622]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1778621]