Clamav 0.90rc1 and prior [Medium]

By Security Team on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in Security Notifications | Related Software Packages:

Affects:

  • Clamav 0.90rc1 and prior [Medium]

Description

The rfc2231 function in message.c in libclamav in ClamAV before 0.93 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted message that produces a string that is not null terminated, which triggers a buffer over-read.

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CVE Identifier: CVE-2008-1836
Severity: Medium

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