ClamAV: Denial of service

ClamAV: Denial of service ClamAV is vulnerable to Denial of Service. clamav 2006-12-18 2006-12-18 157698 remote 0.88.7 0.88.7

ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner.

Hendrik Weimer discovered that ClamAV fails to properly handle deeply nested MIME multipart/mixed content.

By sending a specially crafted email with deeply nested MIME multipart/mixed content an attacker could cause ClamAV to crash.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All ClamAV users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-antivirus/clamav-0.88.7"

CVE-2006-6481 jaervosz vorlon