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Gentoo: GLSA-201412-05 Normal: Clam AntiVirus Denial of Service

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A vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus on Gentoo may lead to Denial of Service; apply updates to secure your system. Severity: Normal.
A vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus can lead to a Denial of Service condition.

Summary

A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the cli_scanpe function in libclamav/pe.c in ClamAV.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo service disruption clamav

Resolution

All Clam AntiVirus users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-antivirus/clamav-0.98.5"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-9050 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9050

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201412-05
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Clam AntiVirus: Denial of service
Date: December 09, 2014
Bugs: #529728
ID: 201412-05

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Topics Covered

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Synopsis

A vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus can lead to a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-antivirus/clamav < 0.98.5 >= 0.98.5

Impact

===== A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition via a specially crafted file.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.