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clamav: denial of service

Package(s):clamav CVE #(s):CVE-2008-5314
Created:December 4, 2008 Updated:December 24, 2008
Description: clamav has a denial of service vulnerability. From the Debian advisory: Ilja van Sprundel discovered that ClamAV contains a denial of service condition in its JPEG file processing because it does not limit the recursion depth when processing JPEG thumbnails (CVE-2008-5314).
Alerts:
Gentoo 200812-21 2008-12-23
SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:028 2008-12-16
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:239 2008-12-05
Fedora FEDORA-2008-10809 2008-12-07
Debian DSA-1680-1 2008-12-04
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