Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV), which could be exploited by remote attackers or malware to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system.
The first issue is caused by a heap corruption error in the "libclamav/mew.c" file when processing certain files, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a vulnerable application into scanning a specially crafted file [...]
Solution
Upgrade to Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) version 0.92.1 :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamav/
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Elliot and Silvio Cesare via iDefense Labs.
ChangeLog
2008-02-12 : Initial release
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