25120 : Clam AntiVirus Freshclam HTTP Header Remote Overflow
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2006-05-01

Description

A remote overflow exists in Freshclam. The 'freshclam' utility fails to check the length of HTTP headers resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow when a server responds with more than 8KB of header data. With a specially crafted server response, an attacker can cause denial of service or arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity or availability for the service.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity, Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.88.2 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Tomasz Kojm	Clam AntiVirus	0.80
		0.88.1
		0.88.2

References

Secunia Advisory ID: 19874 19880 19912 19963 19964 20117 20159 20877
CVE ID: 2006-1989 (see also: NVD)
Other Advisory URL: http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/security-announce/2006-05/msg00000.php
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303973
http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-09.txt
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-03.xml
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0024/
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1050
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://www.clamav.net/doc/0.88.2/ChangeLog
http://www.clamav.net/security/0.88.2.html

Tools & Filters

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	3525

Credit

Ulf Harnhammar - metaurtelia.com -
Peter - remllov_gmx.de -

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.1
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-05-01 | Disagree?

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