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Gentoo: GLSA-200809-18 Normal: ClamAV Denial of Service Threats

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Calendar Grey September 25, 2008
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ClamAV for Gentoo Linux: Several Denial of Service vulnerabilities necessitate immediate updates to safeguard against potential threats.
Multiple vulnerabilities in ClamAV may result in a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200809-18 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: ClamAV: Multiple Denials of Service Date: September 25, 2008 Bugs: #236665 ID: 200809-18

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 < 0.94 >= 0.94
========== Hanno boeck reported an error in libclamav/chmunpack.c when processing CHM files (CVE-2008-1389). Other unspecified vulnerabilites were also...

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