ClamAV: Denial of service — GLSA 200612-18

ClamAV is vulnerable to Denial of Service.

Package	app-antivirus/clamav on all architectures
Affected versions	< 0.88.7
Unaffected versions	>= 0.88.7

ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner.

Hendrik Weimer discovered that ClamAV fails to properly handle deeply nested MIME multipart/mixed content.

By sending a specially crafted email with deeply nested MIME multipart/mixed content an attacker could cause ClamAV to crash.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All ClamAV users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-antivirus/clamav-0.88.7"

Release date
December 18, 2006

Latest revision
December 18, 2006: 01

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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