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Gentoo: GLSA 202111-15 Critical: OpenSSL Vulnerability Found

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Calendar Grey August 8, 2006
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Explore the vulnerabilities in ClamAV impacting Gentoo Linux, which may result in potential service disruptions and security threats.
ClamAV is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow resulting in a Denial of Service and potentially remote execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200608-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: ClamAV: Heap buffer overflow Date: August 08, 2006 Bugs: #143093 ID: 200608-13

Synopsis ======= ClamAV is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow resulting in a Denial of Service and potentially remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-antivirus/clamav < 0.88.4 >= 0.88.4
========== Damian Put has discovered a boundary error in the pefromupx() function used by the UPX extraction module, which unpacks PE Windows executable files. Both the "clamscan" command-li...

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