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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-0897

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2007-0897

Description:
Clam AntiVirus ClamAV before 0.90 does not close open file descriptors under certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption and failed scans) via CAB archives with a cabinet header record length of zero, which causes a function to return without closing a file descriptor.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/32531

SUSE
  http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Feb/0004.html

ST
  1017659

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA24187
  Secunia Advisory: SA24192
  Secunia Advisory: SA24183
  Secunia Advisory: SA24319
  Secunia Advisory: SA24332
  Secunia Advisory: SA24425
  Secunia Advisory: SA29420

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:043

IDEFENSE
  http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=475

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-03.xml

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1263

CONFIRM
  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562

BID
  22580

APPLE
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html


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