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<glsa id="200612-18">
  <title>ClamAV: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>
    ClamAV is vulnerable to Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">clamav</product>
  <announced>2006-12-18</announced>
  <revised count="01">2006-12-18</revised>
  <bug>157698</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-antivirus/clamav" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.88.7</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.88.7</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Hendrik Weimer discovered that ClamAV fails to properly handle deeply
    nested MIME multipart/mixed content.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    By sending a specially crafted email with deeply nested MIME
    multipart/mixed content an attacker could cause ClamAV to crash.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All ClamAV users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-antivirus/clamav-0.88.7"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6481">CVE-2006-6481</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-12-16T18:27:28Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-12-18T19:01:42Z">
    vorlon
  </metadata>
</glsa>
