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TITLE:
ClamAV RAR Archive Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26038

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26038/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Clam AntiVirus (clamav) 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/2538/

DESCRIPTION:
Metaeye SG has reported a vulnerability in ClamAV, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL-pointer dereference error
within libclamav/unrar/unrarvm.c when handling RAR archives and can
be exploited to cause a crash via a specially crafted RAR archive.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.91.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86638

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Metaeye SG

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
ClamAV:
https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=555

Metaeye SG:
http://www.metaeye.org/advisories/54

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