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Clam AntiVirus UUencoded Message Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10826
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Release Date:
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2004-02-10
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Popularity:
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10,033 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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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Oliver Eikemeier has reported a vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus (clamav), which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling certain malformed uuencoded messages. This can be exploited to crash the clamd process by sending a specially crafted message to a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.65.
Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
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