<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201412-05"> <title>Clam AntiVirus: Denial of service</title> <synopsis>A vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus can lead to a Denial of Service condition. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">clamav</product> <announced>2014-12-09</announced> <revised count="2">2014-12-09</revised> <bug>529728</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="app-antivirus/clamav" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">0.98.5</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">0.98.5</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. </p> </background> <description> <p>A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the cli_scanpe function in libclamav/pe.c in ClamAV. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition via a specially crafted file. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All Clam AntiVirus users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-antivirus/clamav-0.98.5" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9050">CVE-2014-9050</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2014-12-07T19:55:16Z"> BlueKnight </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-12-09T12:58:59Z">Zlogene</metadata> </glsa>