A vulnerability has been identified in ClamAV, which could be exploited by remote attackers or malware to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an an out-of-bounds read related to the "libclamav/petite.c" file when processing malformed Petite compressed files, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application via a malicious and specially crafted Petite file.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Damian Put.
ChangeLog
2008-06-17 : Initial release
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