Bug 628690 (CVE-2017-6418)

Summary:	<app-antivirus/clamav-0.99.4: out-of-bounds read in libclamav/message.c (CVE-2017-6418)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	antivirus, net-mail+disabled
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1483908
Whiteboard:	B3 [glsa+ cve]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	649314
Bug Blocks:

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2017-08-23 08:03:15 UTC

From ${URL} :

libclamav/message.c in ClamAV 0.99.2 allows remote attackers to cause a
denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted e-mail message.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-devel/commit/586a5180287262070637c8943f2f7efd652e4a2c


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.

Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-03-02 19:05:59 UTC

The fix is present in clamav-0.99.4.

Comment 2 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2018-04-22 22:34:31 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201804-16 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-16
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).