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CVE-2004-0270

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2004-02-12 clamav remote denial-of-service

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Details

Type CVE Entry
Name CVE-2004-0270

Description

libclamav in Clam AntiVirus 0.65 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a uuencoded e-mail message with an invalid line length (e.g., a lowercase character), which causes an assert error in clamd that terminates the calling program.

References

Source Reference
BUGTRAQ 20040209 clamav 0.65 remote DOS exploit
CONFIRM http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62586
GENTOO GLSA-200402-07
XF clam-antivirus-uuencoded-dos(15077)
BID 9610
OSVDB 3894