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Gentoo: GLSA-200511-04 High: ClamAV Multiple Flaws DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey November 6, 2005
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Critical warning issued regarding ClamAV security flaws impacting Gentoo users, emphasizing the dangers of potential remote exploitation and denial-of-service attacks.
ClamAV has many security flaws which make it vulnerable to remote execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200511-04 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: November 06, 2005 Bugs: #109213 ID: 200511-04

Synopsis ======= ClamAV has many security flaws which make it vulnerable to remote execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.
Background ========= ClamAV is a GPL anti-virus toolkit, designed for integration with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. ClamAV 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 < 0.87.1 >= 0.87.1
========== ClamAV has mu...

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