Clam AntiVirus: Denial of Service vulnerability

June 30, 2005

Severity: Normal
Title: Clam AntiVirus: Denial of Service vulnerability
Date: June 27, 2005
Bugs: #96960
ID: 200506-23

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Synopsis
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Clam AntiVirus is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack when
processing certain Quantum archives.

Background
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Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit, designed for integration
with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. Clam AntiVirus also
provides a command line scanner and a tool for fetching updates of the
virus database.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-antivirus/clamav < 0.86.1 >= 0.86.1

Description
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Andrew Toller and Stefan Kanthak discovered that a flaw in libmspack’s
Quantum archive decompressor renders Clam AntiVirus vulnerable to a
Denial of Service attack.

Impact
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A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of
Service by sending a specially crafted Quantum archive to the server.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Clam AntiVirus users should upgrade to the latest available
version:

# emerge –sync
# emerge –ask –oneshot –verbose “>=app-antivirus/clamav-0.86.1″

References
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[ 1 ] Clam AntiVirus Release Notes

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=337279

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-23.xml

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

http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons – Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0

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