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HistoryDec 09, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

Clam AntiVirus: Denial of service

2014-12-0900:00:00
Gentoo Foundation
security.gentoo.org
14

0.151 Low

EPSS

Percentile

95.8%

Background

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

Description

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

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.

Resolution

All Clam AntiVirus users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-antivirus/clamav-0.98.5"
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyallapp-antivirus/clamav< 0.98.5UNKNOWN