Vulnerability in Amavis Virus Scanner
CVE-2007-2026
The gnu regular expression code in file 4.20 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted document with a large number of line feed characters, which is not well handled by OS/2 REXX regular expressions that use wildcards, as originally reported for AMaViS.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.021 (80.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 80.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Amavis Virus Scanner
- Gentoo File — versions 4.20
References
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
- secunia.com/advisories/24918 (third-party-advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml (vendor-advisory)
- sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php
- issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311
- www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt
- secunia.com/advisories/25544 (third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/25578 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded (mailing-list)