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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-04 Moderate: ClamAV Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2007
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Critical vulnerability in ClamAV results in Denial of Service on Gentoo systems. Immediate upgrade is advised to maintain security.
A vulnerability has been discovered in ClamAV, allowing for a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200708-04 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: ClamAV: Denial of Service Date: August 09, 2007 Bugs: #185013 ID: 200708-04

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability has been discovered in ClamAV, allowing for a Denial of Service.
Background ========= ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-antivirus/clamav < 0.91 >= 0.91
========== Metaeye Security Group reported a NULL pointer dereference in ClamAV when processing RAR archives.
Impact ===== A remote attacker could send a specially crafted RAR archive to the clamd daemon, resulting in a crash and a Denial of Service.
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