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ClamAV RAR Archive Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

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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