32283 : Clam AntiVirus MIME Malformed CAB File Processing DoS
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Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Ack Date	Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2007-02-07	2007-02-13	2007-02-15	2007-02-15

Time to Patch	Time to Vendor Response
8 days	6 days

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2007-0897" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Clam AntiVirus ClamAV before 0.90 does not close open file descriptors under certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption and failed scans) via CAB archives with a cabinet header record length of zero, which causes a function to return without closing a file descriptor.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Private
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Coordinated Disclosure
OSVDB: Security Software

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.90 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1017659
CVE ID: 2007-0897 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 22580
Secunia Advisory ID: 24183 24187 24192 24319 24332 24425 29420
Related OSVDB ID: 32282
ISS X-Force ID: 32531
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2007-0623 ADV-2008-0924
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-02/0275.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Feb/0004.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_17_clamav.html
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133
Other Advisory URL: http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=475
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2007/msg00018.html
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Feb/0004.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1263
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-03.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:043
Vendor Specific Solution URL: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-03.xml

Tools & Filters

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Credit

Anonymous - iDefense Labs VCP

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 4.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-02-20 | Disagree?

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