CVE-2024-20328

Publication date 9 February 2024

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

A vulnerability in the VirusEvent feature of ClamAV could allow a local attacker to inject arbitrary commands with the privileges of the application service account.The vulnerability is due to unsafe handling of file names. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by supplying a file name containing command-line sequences. When processed on a system using configuration options for the VirusEvent feature, the attacker could cause the application to execute arbitrary commands. ClamAV has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
clamav	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1.0.5+dfsg-1ubuntu1
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 1.0.5+dfsg-0ubuntu0.23.10.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

CVE-2024-20328

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