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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200506-23">
+ <title>Clam AntiVirus: Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Clam AntiVirus is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack when processing
+ certain Quantum archives.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">clamav</product>
+ <announced>June 27, 2005</announced>
+ <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
+ <bug>96960</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-antivirus/clamav" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">0.86.1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">0.86.1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit, designed for integration
+ with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. Clam AntiVirus also
+ provides a command line scanner and a tool for fetching updates of the
+ virus database.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ 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.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of
+ Service by sending a specially crafted Quantum archive to the server.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Clam AntiVirus users should upgrade to the latest available
+ version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-antivirus/clamav-0.86.1&quot;</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=337279">Clam AntiVirus Release Notes</uri>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2056">CVE-2005-2056</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:27:44 +0000">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:09:26 +0000">
+ DerCorny
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 26 Jun 2005 16:53:15 +0000">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>