Secunia - Stay Secure
Gartner
Home Corporate Website Jobs Mailing Lists RSS Blog New entry Advertise
Software Inspectors
  Scan Online
  Personal (PSI)
  Network (NSI 2.0)
  - NEW -

Solutions For
  Security Professionals
  Security Vendors

Free Solutions For
  Open Communities
  Journalists & Media

Secunia Advisories
  Search
  Historic Advisories
  Listed By Product
  Listed By Vendor
  Statistics / Graphs
  Secunia Research
  Report Vulnerability
  About Advisories

Virus Information
  Chronological List
  Last 10 Virus Alerts
  About Virus Information

Secunia Customers
  Customer Area


Clam AntiVirus Multipart Nestings Denial of Service Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA23347  
Release Date: 2006-12-12
Last Update: 2006-12-13

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

Software:Clam AntiVirus (clamav) 0.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-6481 (Secunia mirror)

Want to know the next time vulnerabilities are fixed in this product?
- Companies can be alerted via email and SMS!


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



Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.

27 Related Secunia Security Advisories, displaying 10

1. ClamAV Multiple Vulnerabilities
2. ClamAV Multiple Vulnerabilities
3. ClamAV Multiple Vulnerabilities
4. ClamAV Multiple Vulnerabilities
5. ClamAV RAR Archive Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability
6. ClamAV Multiple Vulnerabilities
7. Clam AntiVirus Multiple Vulnerabilities
8. ClamAV MIME Header Handling and CAB File Processing Vulnerabilities
9. Clam AntiVirus CHM Unpacker and PE Rebuilding Vulnerabilities
10. Clam AntiVirus pefromupx() Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Show all related advisories


Send Feedback to Secunia

If you have new information regarding this Secunia advisory or a product in our database, please send it to us using either our web form or email us at vuln@secunia.com.

Ideas, suggestions, and other feedback are most welcome.








Secunia PSI
Scan | Patch | Track
Free Download

Secunia Poll

Do you think it's important to read Setup/User Guides for applications for use within your network?


See Results   


Most Popular Advisories

1.
Debian OpenSSL Predictable Random Number Generator and Update
2.
Ubuntu update for openssl
3.
Microsoft Windows XP I2O Utility Filter Driver Privilege Escalation
4.
Citrix Access Gateway Unspecified Authentication Bypass
5.
Novell Client Login Long Username/Contex t Buffer Overflow
6.
Build A Niche Store "q" Cross-Site Scripting
7.
ZyXEL ZyWALL 100 "Referer" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
8.
IBM Lotus Quickr WYSIWYG Editors Unspecified Cross-Site Scripting
9.
cPanel Cross-Site Scripting and Request Forgery Vulnerabilities
10.
Gentoo update for aterm, eterm, rxvt, mrxvt, multi-aterm, wterm, and rxvt-unicode





Vulnerability Management - Terms & Conditions - Copyright 2002-2008 Secunia - Compliance - Contact Secunia