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Gentoo: GLSA 200506-23 Normal: Clam AntiVirus Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey June 27, 2005
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In June 2005, Gentoo issued GLSA 200506-23 for a Denial of Service vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus. This flaw can cause application crashes and service interruptions.
Clam AntiVirus is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack when processing certain Quantum archives.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-23 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Clam AntiVirus: Denial of Service vulnerability Date: June 27, 2005 Bugs: #96960 ID: 200506-23

Synopsis ======= Clam AntiVirus is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack when processing certain Quantum archives.
Background ========= Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit, designed for integration with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. Clam AntiVirus also provides a command line scanner and a tool for fetching updates of the virus database.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-antivirus/clamav < 0.86.1 >= 0.86.1
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