[SA18379] ClamAV Unspecified UPX File Handling Vulnerability

TITLE:
ClamAV Unspecified UPX File Handling Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18379

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18379/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Unknown

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Clam AntiVirus (clamav) 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/2538/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in ClamAV, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people with an unknown impact.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified boundary error in
"libclamav/upx.c". This can potentially be exploited to cause a
heap-based buffer overflow via a specially-crafted UPX packed file.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.88.
http://www.clamav.net/stable.php#pagestart

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits 3Com's Zero Day Initiative.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.clamav.net/doc/0.88/ChangeLog

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