SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA23347

VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/23347/

CRITICAL: Moderately critical

IMPACT: DoS

SOFTWARE: Clam AntiVirus (clamav) 0.x - http://secunia.com/product/2538/

DESCRIPTION: Hendrik Weimer has reported a vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to a stack overflow when scanning messages with deeply nested multipart content. This can be exploited to crash the service by sending specially crafted emails to a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.88.7.

SOLUTION: Update to version 0.88.7.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Hendrik Weimer

ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass