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Gentoo: GLSA 200802-09 High Risk: ClamAV Remote Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey February 21, 2008
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Numerous security flaws in ClamAV necessitate urgent patches to prevent potential remote code execution threats. Prioritize your safety!
Multiple vulnerabilities in ClamAV may result in the remote execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200802-09
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

Severity: High Title: ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: February 21, 2008 Bugs: #209915 ID: 200802-09

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities in ClamAV may result in the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Clam AntiVirus is a free anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-antivirus/clamav < 0.92.1 >= 0.92.1
========== An integer overflow has been reported in the "cli_scanpe()" function in file libclamav/pe.c (CVE-2008...

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