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Gentoo GLSA-200704-21 High: ClamAV Remote Code Execution Risks

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Calendar Grey April 24, 2007
Scroller Gentoo
Promptly update ClamAV as critical vulnerabilities have been detected that could enable remote code execution on Gentoo machines.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ClamAV allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200704-21 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: April 24, 2007 Bugs: #174375 ID: 200704-21

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ClamAV allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-antivirus/clamav < 0.90.2 >= 0.90.2
========== iDefense Labs have reported a stack-based buffer overflow in the cab_unstore() function when processing negative values in .cab files. Multiple file descriptor leaks have also been reported in chmunpack.c, pdf.c...

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