GLSA 201412-05: Clam AntiVirus: Denial of service

Severity:normal
Title:Clam AntiVirus: Denial of service
Date:12/09/2014
Bugs: #529728
ID:201412-05

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus can lead to a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways.

Affected packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected Architecture(s)
app-antivirus/clamav < 0.98.5 >= 0.98.5 All supported architectures

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the cli_scanpe function in libclamav/pe.c in ClamAV.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition via a specially crafted file.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Clam AntiVirus users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-antivirus/clamav-0.98.5"
    

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-05.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

Copyright 2010 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s). The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

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