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>> ClamAV CHM File Processing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
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A vulnerability has been identified in ClamAV, which could be exploited by attackers or malware to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an invalid memory access in the "libclamav/chmunpack.c" when processing a malformed CHM file, which could be exploited to create a denial of service condition.
Other out-of-memory conditions, memory consumption and file descriptor leaks have been reported.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Hanno Böck.
ChangeLog
2008-09-03 : Initial release
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