Gentoo: GLSA-200712-20 High: ClamAV Remote Code Execution Issues
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December 29, 2007
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ClamAV allowing remote execution of arbitrary code and Denial of Service attacks.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200712-20
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: December 29, 2007
Bugs: #202762
ID: 200712-20
Synopsis
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Multiple 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 a free 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-r1 >= 0.91.2-r1
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iDefense reported an integer overflow vulnerability in the cli_scanpe()
function when parsing Portable Ex...
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