gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201412-05.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201412-05">
  <title>Clam AntiVirus: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus can lead to a Denial of Service
    condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">clamav</product>
  <announced>2014-12-09</announced>
  <revised count="2">2014-12-09</revised>
  <bug>529728</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-antivirus/clamav" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.98.5</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.98.5</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX,
      designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the cli_scanpe function in
      libclamav/pe.c in ClamAV.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition via
      a specially crafted file.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Clam AntiVirus users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-antivirus/clamav-0.98.5"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9050">CVE-2014-9050</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2014-12-07T19:55:16Z">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-12-09T12:58:59Z">Zlogene</metadata>
</glsa>