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Gentoo 200808-07 Low Severity Denial Of Service: ClamAV Risks

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Calendar Grey August 8, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Various weaknesses found in ClamAV within Gentoo, presenting minimal risk of Denial of Service issues. Urgent upgrade necessary!
Multiple vulnerabilities in ClamAV may result in a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200808-07 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: ClamAV: Multiple Denials of Service Date: August 08, 2008 Bugs: #204340, #227351 ID: 200808-07

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities in ClamAV may result in a Denial of Service.
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 < 0.93.3 >= 0.93.3
========== Damian Put has discovered an out-of-bounds memory access while processing Petite files (CVE-2008-2713, CVE-2008-3215). Also, please note that the 0.93 ClamAV...

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