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ClamAV RAR Archive Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA26038
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Release Date:
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2007-07-12
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Last Update:
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2007-07-13
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Popularity:
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9,406 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-2007-3725
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Description:
Metaeye SG has reported a vulnerability in ClamAV, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL-pointer dereference error within libclamav/unrar/unrarvm.c when handling RAR archives and can be exploited to cause a crash via a specially crafted RAR archive.
Solution:
Update to version 0.91.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86638
Provided and/or discovered by:
Metaeye SG
Changelog:
2007-07-13: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
ClamAV:
https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=555
Metaeye SG:
http://www.metaeye.org/advisories/54
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