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>> ClamAV Petite File Processing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : ClamAV Petite File Processing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1855
CVE ID : CVE-2008-2713 - CVE-2008-3215
CWE ID : CWE-125
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-06-17


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A vulnerability has been identified in ClamAV, which could be exploited by remote attackers or malware to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an an out-of-bounds read related to the "libclamav/petite.c" file when processing malformed Petite compressed files, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application via a malicious and specially crafted Petite file.

Affected Products

ClamAV (Clam AntiVirus) versions prior to 0.93.1

Solution

Upgrade to ClamAV version 0.93.1 :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamav/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1855
https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1000
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=605577

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Damian Put.

ChangeLog

2008-06-17 : Initial release

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