GLSA Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 3829 Location: Essen, Germany
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 4:01 pm Post subject: [ GLSA 200402-07 ] Clam Antivirus DoS vulnerability |
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
Title: Clam Antivirus DoS vulnerability (GLSA 200402-07)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: February 17, 2004
Bug(s): #41248
ID: 200402-07
Synopsis
Oliver Eikemeier has reported a vulnerability in Clam AV, which can be exploited by a malformed uuencoded message causing a denial of service for programs that rely on the clamav daemon, such as SMTP daemons.
Background
Clam AntiVirus is a GPLed anti-virus toolkit, designed for integration with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. Clam AV also provides a command line scanner and a tool for fetching updates of the virus database.
Affected Packages
Package: app-antivirus/clamav
Vulnerable: < 0.67
Unaffected: >= 0.67
Architectures: All supported architectures
Description
Oliver Eikemeier of Fillmore Labs discovered the overflow in Clam AV 0.65 when it handled malformed UUEncoded messages, causing the daemon to shut down. The problem originated in libclamav which calculates the line length of an uuencoded message by taking the ASCII value of the first character minus 64 while doing an assertion if the length is not in the allowed range, effectively terminating the calling program as clamav would not be available.
Impact
A malformed message would cause a denial of service, and depending on the server configuration this may impact other daemons relying on Clam AV in a fatal manner.
Workaround
There is no immediate workaround, a software upgrade is required.
Resolution
All users are urged to upgrade their Clam AV installations to Clam AV 0.67: Code: | # emerge sync
# emerge -pv ">=app-antivirus/clamav-0.6.7"
# emerge ">=app-antivirus/clamav-0.6.7" |
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