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TITLE:
ClamAV Quantum Decompressor Denial of Service Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15811
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15811/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
DoS
WHERE:
Local system
SOFTWARE:
Clam AntiVirus (clamav) 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/2538/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in ClamAV, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error, which causes
ClamAV to crash when scanning an archive compressed using Quantum
compression with a window size that is less than 32KB.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.86. Prior versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.86.1
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Andrew Toller and Stefan Kanthak.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=337279
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