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Gentoo: 200709-14 High: ClamAV Remote Code Execution & DoS Threat

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Various vulnerabilities in ClamAV for Gentoo Linux facilitate remote code execution and enable Denial of Service (DoS) incidents.
Vulnerabilities have been discovered in ClamAV allowing remote execution of arbitrary code and Denial of Service attacks.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200709-14
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: High
     Title: ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: September 20, 2007
      Bugs: #189912
        ID: 200709-14


Synopsis
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Vulnerabilities have been discovered in ClamAV allowing remote
execution of arbitrary code and Denial of Service attacks.

Background
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Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX,
designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways.

Affected packages
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     Package               /  Vulnerable  /                 Unaffected
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  1  app-antivirus/clamav      < 0.91.2                      >= 0.91.2

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Nikolaos Rangos discovered a vulnerability in ClamAV ...
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