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ClamAV Quantum Decompressor Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA15811
Release Date: 2005-06-24
Last Update: 2005-06-29
Popularity: 10,612 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Clam AntiVirus (clamav) 0.x

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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.

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