Wednesday, September 22, 2010

ClamAV: integer-overflow vulnerability

Users of ClamAV please be advised of an integer-overflow vulnerability that has been identified.

To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)

Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
USN-986-2: [USN-986-2] ClamAV integer-overflow vulnerability
advisory details:



An integer overflow was discovered in bzip2. If a user or automated system

were tricked into decompressing a crafted bz2 file, an attacker could cause

bzip2 or any application linked against libbz2 to crash or possibly execute

code as the user running the program.
Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
 

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