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Gentoo 200612-18: Risk of ClamAV Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey December 18, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A vulnerability in ClamAV on Gentoo poses a Denial of Service risk, necessitating an immediate update to address the issue.
ClamAV is vulnerable to Denial of Service.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200612-18 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: ClamAV: Denial of Service Date: December 18, 2006 Bugs: #157698 ID: 200612-18

Synopsis ======= ClamAV is vulnerable to Denial of Service.
Background ========= ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-antivirus/clamav < 0.88.7 >= 0.88.7
========== Hendrik Weimer discovered that ClamAV fails to properly handle deeply nested MIME multipart/mixed content.
Impact ===== By sending a specially crafted email with deeply nested MIME multipart/mixed content an attacker could cause ClamAV to crash.
Workaround ========= There ...

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