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Gentoo GLSA-200604-06 High: ClamAV Remote Execution Issues

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Calendar Grey April 7, 2006
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Gentoo users should note that ClamAV has faced critical vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution and application instability. Updating is recommended!
ClamAV contains multiple vulnerabilities that could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code or cause an application crash.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200604-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: April 07, 2006 Bugs: #128963 ID: 200604-06

Synopsis ======= ClamAV contains multiple vulnerabilities that could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code or cause an application crash.
Background ========= ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-antivirus/clamav < 0.88.1 >= 0.88.1
========== ClamAV contains format string vulnerabilities in the logging code (CVE-2006-1615). Furthermore Damian Put discovered an integer overflow in ClamAV's PE header parser (CVE-2006-1614) and Da...

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