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Gentoo: GLSA 200410-31 Low: Archive::Zip Virus Detection Evasion
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October 29, 2004
Email virus scanning software relying on Archive::Zip can be fooled into thinking a ZIP attachment is empty while it contains a virus, allowing detection evasion
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-31
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Low
Title: Archive::Zip: Virus detection evasion
Date: October 29, 2004
Bugs: #68616
ID: 200410-31
Synopsis
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Email virus scanning software relying on Archive::Zip can be fooled
into thinking a ZIP attachment is empty while it contains a virus,
allowing detection evasion.
Background
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Archive::Zip is a Perl module containing functions to handle ZIP
archives.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-perl/Archive-Zip < 1.14 >= 1.14
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Archive::Zip can be used by email scanning software (like amavisd-new)
to uncompress attachments befor...
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