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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200507-25">
+ <title>Clam AntiVirus: Integer overflows</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Clam AntiVirus is vulnerable to integer overflows when handling several
+ file formats, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">clamav</product>
+ <announced>2005-07-26</announced>
+ <revised count="02">2005-08-11</revised>
+ <bug>100178</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-antivirus/clamav" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">0.86.2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">0.86.2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit, designed for integration
+ with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. Clam AntiVirus also
+ provides a command line scanner and a tool for fetching updates of the
+ virus database.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Neel Mehta and Alex Wheeler discovered that Clam AntiVirus is
+ vulnerable to integer overflows when handling the TNEF, CHM and FSG
+ file formats.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>
+ By sending a specially-crafted file an attacker could execute arbitrary
+ code with the permissions of the user running Clam AntiVirus.
+ </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 "&gt;=app-antivirus/clamav-0.86.2"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2450">CAN-2005-2450</uri>
+ <uri link="https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=344514">Clam AntiVirus: Release Notes</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-07-25T17:48:24Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-07-25T19:44:22Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-07-26T20:33:43Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>