Check Point Advisories

ClamAV Mail Filter Extension Crafted Recipient Command Execution - ver 2 (CVE-2007-4560)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-1580
Date Published: 29 May 2014
Severity: High
Last Updated: Wednesday 12 November, 2014
Source: Clam AntiVirus Project
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-4560
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? ClamAV Project Clam AntiVirus prior to 0.91.2
Vulnerability Description A shell command injection vulnerability has been reported in ClamAV AntiVirus product. The vulnerability is due to an application who processes malicious SMTP commands. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by delivering a crafted request to the target host, resulting in command injection and execution with privileges of the affected ClamAV application.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the ClamAV Mail Filter Extension Crafted Recipient Command Execution - ver 2 protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Security Products Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  ClamAV Mail Filter Extension Crafted Recipient Command Execution - ver 2

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