Gentoo: GLSA-200610-10 High Severity: ClamAV Remote Code Execution
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October 24, 2006
ClamAV is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow potentially allowing remote execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200610-10
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: ClamAV: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date: October 24, 2006
Bugs: #151561
ID: 200610-10
Synopsis
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ClamAV is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow potentially
allowing remote execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.
Background
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ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-antivirus/clamav < 0.88.5 >= 0.88.5
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Damian Put and an anonymous researcher reported a potential heap-based
buffer overflow vulnerability in rebuildpe.c responsible for the
rebuilding of an unpacked PE file, and a possibl...
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