gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200708-04.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200708-04">
  <title>ClamAV: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability has been discovered in ClamAV, allowing for a Denial of
    Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">clamav</product>
  <announced>2007-08-09</announced>
  <revised count="01">2007-08-09</revised>
  <bug>185013</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-antivirus/clamav" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.91</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.91</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Metaeye Security Group reported a NULL pointer dereference in ClamAV
    when processing RAR archives.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could send a specially crafted RAR archive to the
    clamd daemon, resulting in a crash and a Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All ClamAV users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-antivirus/clamav-0.91"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3725">CVE-2007-3725</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-07-29T22:16:39Z">
    falco
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-08-04T17:18:26Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-08-04T17:18:43Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>