[Mimedefang] [OT] FYI: Clam AntiVirus UUencoded Message Denial of Service Vulnerability

[Chris Myers]

For those of us using Clamd 0.65, fyi.

Chris Myers
Networks By Design 

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TITLE:
Clam AntiVirus UUencoded Message Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA10826

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10826/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Clam AntiVirus (clamav) 0.x

DESCRIPTION:
Oliver Eikemeier has reported a vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus
(clamav), which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling certain
malformed uuencoded messages. This can be exploited to crash the
clamd process by sending a specially crafted message to a vulnerable
system.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.65.

SOLUTION:
This issue has reportedly been fixed in CVS.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Oliver Eikemeier

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62586

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