Clam AntiVirus PDF File Processing Error Lets Remote Users Deny Service

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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1024017

SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1024017

CVE Reference: CVE-2010-1639 (Links to External Site)

Updated: May 28 2010

Original Entry Date: May 21 2010

Impact: Denial of service via network

Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes Exploit Included: Yes

Version(s): 0.96; possibly other versions

Description: A vulnerability was reported in Clam AntiVirus. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions.

A remote user can send a specially crafted PDF file to trigger an error in the cli_pdf() function and cause the target antivirus process to crash.

The original advisory is available at:

https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2016

Impact: A remote user can cause the antivirus process to crash.

Solution: The vendor has issued a source code fix for libclamav/pdf.c, available at:

http://git.clamav.net/gitweb?p=clamav-devel.git;a=commitdiff;h=f0eb394501ec21b9fe67f36cbf5db788711d4236#patch2

Vendor URL: www.clamav.net/ (Links to External Site)

Cause: Not specified

Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)

Message History: None.

Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 17:48:19 +0000
Subject: ClamAV Clam AntiVirus


https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2016