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ClamAV: denial of service

Package(s):clamav CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2056 CAN-2005-2070
Created:June 27, 2005 Updated:July 12, 2005
Description: Andrew Toller and Stefan Kanthak discovered that a flaw in libmspack's Quantum archive decompressor renders Clam AntiVirus vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service by sending a specially crafted Quantum archive to the server.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:113 2005-07-11
Debian DSA-737-1 2005-07-05
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:038 2005-06-29
Gentoo 200506-23 2005-06-27
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