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Gentoo: GLSA-200601-08 Critical Severity: OpenSSL Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A severe buffer overflow flaw in ClamAV permits remote code execution. It is essential to upgrade swiftly to reduce potential threats.
ClamAV is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which may lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200601-07 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: ClamAV: Remote execution of arbitrary code Date: January 13, 2006 Bugs: #118459 ID: 200601-07

Synopsis ======= ClamAV is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which may lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-antivirus/clamav < 0.88 >= 0.88
========== Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) reported a heap buffer overflow vulnerability. The vulnerability is due to an incorrect boundary check of the user-supplied data prior to copying it to an insufficiently sized memo...

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