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2.4 KiB
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71 lines
2.4 KiB
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
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<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="200506-23">
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<title>Clam AntiVirus: Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
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<synopsis>
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Clam AntiVirus is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack when processing
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certain Quantum archives.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">clamav</product>
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<announced>June 27, 2005</announced>
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<revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
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<bug>96960</bug>
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<access>remote</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="app-antivirus/clamav" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">0.86.1</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">0.86.1</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>
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Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit, designed for integration
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with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. Clam AntiVirus also
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provides a command line scanner and a tool for fetching updates of the
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virus database.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>
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Andrew Toller and Stefan Kanthak discovered that a flaw in libmspack's
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Quantum archive decompressor renders Clam AntiVirus vulnerable to a
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Denial of Service attack.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>
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A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of
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Service by sending a specially crafted Quantum archive to the server.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>
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There is no known workaround at this time.
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</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>
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All Clam AntiVirus users should upgrade to the latest available
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version:
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</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-antivirus/clamav-0.86.1"</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=337279">Clam AntiVirus Release Notes</uri>
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<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2056">CVE-2005-2056</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:27:44 +0000">
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jaervosz
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:09:26 +0000">
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DerCorny
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 26 Jun 2005 16:53:15 +0000">
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jaervosz
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</metadata>
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</glsa>
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