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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-20 Critical: F-PROT Antivirus Vulnerability Alert

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Calendar Grey April 14, 2009
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A vulnerability in F-PROT Antivirus could trigger Denial of Service issues; it's advised to update to protect your system.
An error in F-PROT Antivirus may lead to a Denial of Service.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-14:02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: F-PROT Antivirus: Denial of Service Date: April 14, 2009 Updated: April 14, 2009 Bugs: #253497 ID: 200904-14:02

Synopsis ======= An error in F-PROT Antivirus may lead to a Denial of Service.
Background ========= F-PROT Antivirus is a multi-platform virus scanner for workstations and mail servers.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-antivirus/f-prot < 6.0.2 >= 6.0.2
========== Jonathan Brossard from iViZ Techno Solutions reported that F-PROT Antivirus does not correctly process ELF binaries with corrupted headers.
Impact ===== A remote attack...

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