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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200402-07">
+ <title>Clam Antivirus DoS vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Oliver Eikemeier has reported a vulnerability in Clam AV, which can be
+ exploited by a malformed uuencoded message causing a denial of service for
+ programs that rely on the clamav daemon, such as SMTP daemons.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">clamav</product>
+ <announced>February 17, 2004</announced>
+ <revised>February 17, 2004: 01</revised>
+ <bug>41248</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-antivirus/clamav" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">0.67</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">0.67</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Clam AntiVirus is a GPLed anti-virus toolkit, designed for integration with
+ mail servers to perform attachment scanning. Clam AV also provides a
+ command line scanner and a tool for fetching updates of the virus database.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Oliver Eikemeier of Fillmore Labs discovered the overflow in Clam AV 0.65
+ when it handled malformed UUEncoded messages, causing the daemon to shut
+ down.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The problem originated in libclamav which calculates the line length of an
+ uuencoded message by taking the ASCII value of the first character minus 64
+ while doing an assertion if the length is not in the allowed range,
+ effectively terminating the calling program as clamav would not be
+ available.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A malformed message would cause a denial of service,
+ and depending on the server configuration this may impact other daemons
+ relying on Clam AV in a fatal manner.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no immediate workaround, a software upgrade is required.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All users are urged to upgrade their Clam AV installations to Clam AV 0.67:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge sync
+ # emerge -pv ">=app-antivirus/clamav-0.6.7"
+ # emerge ">=app-antivirus/clamav-0.6.7"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ </references>
+</glsa>