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Gentoo: GLSA-200703-03 Normal: ClamAV Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey March 2, 2007
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Enhance your ClamAV installation to address recently uncovered Denial of Service vulnerabilities as per Gentoo advisory GLSA 200703-03. Discover further details today!
ClamAV contains two vulnerabilities allowing a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200703-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: ClamAV: Denial of Service Date: March 02, 2007 Bugs: #167201 ID: 200703-03

Synopsis ======= ClamAV contains two vulnerabilities allowing a Denial of Service.
Background ========= ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-antivirus/clamav < 0.90 >= 0.90
========== An anonymous researcher discovered a file descriptor leak error in the processing of CAB archives and a lack of validation of the "id" parameter string used to create local files when parsing MIME headers.
Impact ===== A remote attacker can send several craft...

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