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[DSA737] DSA-737-1 clamav

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-737-1 clamav

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

A number of potential remote denial of service vulnerabilities have been identified in
ClamAV. In addition to the four issues identified by CVE ID above, there
are fixes for issues in libclamav/cvd.c and libclamav/message.c.
Together, these issues could permit a carefully crafted message to crash
a ClamAV scanner or exhaust various resources on the machine running the
scanner.
For the stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.84-2.sarge.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your clamav package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-737
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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