ClamAV RAR Archive Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability - Advisories

ClamAV RAR Archive Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:	SA26038
Release Date:	2007-07-12
Last Update:	2007-07-13

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

Software:	Clam AntiVirus (clamav) 0.x

CVE reference:	CVE-2007-3725 (Secunia mirror)

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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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