Gentoo: GLSA-200402-07 Normal: Clamav 0.65 DoS Threat Advisory

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200402-07
~                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

~  Severity: Normal
~     Title: Clamav 0.65 DoS vulnerability
~      Date: February 11, 2004
~      Bugs: #41248
~        ID: 200402-07


Synopsis
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Oliver Eikemeier has reported a vulnerability in clamav, which can be
exploited by a malformed uuencoded message causing a denial of service
for programs that rely on the clamav daemon, such as SMTP daemons.

Background
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Clam AntiVirus is a GPLed anti-virus toolkit, designed for integration
with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. Clam AV also provides
a command line scanner and a tool for fetching updates of the virus
database.

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Oliver Eikemeier of Fillmore Labs discovered the overflow in Clam AV
0.65 when it handled malformed UUEncoded messages, causing the daemon to
shut down.

The problem originated in libclamav w...
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