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ClamAV RAR Archive Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA26038
Release Date: 2007-07-12
Last Update: 2007-07-13
Popularity: 11,699 views

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

Software:Clam AntiVirus (clamav) 0.x

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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.

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