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ClamAV Petite Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA30657
Release Date: 2008-06-17
Last Update: 2008-07-28
Popularity: 4,594 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Clam AntiVirus (clamav) 0.x

Binary Analysis: BA504 :: Available for 1 Credit

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CVE reference:CVE-2008-2713
CVE-2008-3215


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in ClamAV, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in libclamav/petite.c. This can be exploited to trigger an out-of-bounds read via a specially crafted Petite packed executable.

The vulnerability is confirmed in versions 0.93 and 0.93.1. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 0.93.3.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Damian Put.

Information about additional attack vector not patched in the original fix was provided by Secunia Research.

Changelog:
2008-06-20: Updated "Solution" section and marked the advisory as unpatched. Additional information provided by Secunia Research.
2008-07-08: Updated "Solution" and "Original Advisory" sections.
2008-07-28: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1000

http://sourceforge.net/project/showno...?release_id=605577&group_id=86638
http://sourceforge.net/project/showno...?release_id=611890&group_id=86638


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