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Gentoo: GLSA-200507-25 High: Clam AntiVirus Integer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey July 26, 2005
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Clam AntiVirus alerts warn of vulnerabilities in file formats, posing risks for arbitrary code execution. Update immediately!
Clam AntiVirus is vulnerable to integer overflows when handling several file formats, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200507-25 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Clam AntiVirus: Integer overflows Date: July 26, 2005 Bugs: #100178 ID: 200507-25

Synopsis ======= Clam AntiVirus is vulnerable to integer overflows when handling several file formats, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
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 < 0.86.2 ...

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