Gentoo: 200812-21 High: ClamAV Remote Code Exec and DoS Risk
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December 23, 2008
Two vulnerabilities in ClamAV may allow for the remote execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200812-21
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: December 23, 2008
Bugs: #245450, #249833
ID: 200812-21
Synopsis
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Two vulnerabilities in ClamAV may allow for the remote execution of
arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.
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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1 app-antivirus/clamav < 0.94.2 >= 0.94.2
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Moritz Jodeit reported an off-by-one error within the
get_unicode_name() function in libclamav/vba_e...
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