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Clam AntiVirus Multipart Nestings Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA23347
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Release Date:
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2006-12-12
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Last Update:
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2006-12-13
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Popularity:
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12,674 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Clam AntiVirus (clamav) 0.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-6481
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Description:
Hendrik Weimer has reported a vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a stack overflow when scanning messages with deeply nested multipart content. This can be exploited to crash the service by sending specially crafted emails to a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.88.7.
Solution:
Update to version 0.88.7.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Hendrik Weimer
Changelog:
2006-12-13: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass
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