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TITLE:
ClamAV "cli_check_jpeg_exploit()" Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32926

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http://secunia.com/advisories/32926/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

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

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an infinite recursion error within
the "cli_check_jpeg_exploit()" function in libclamav/special.c. This
can be exploited to cause a stack overflow and crash the application
via a specially crafted JPEG file.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.94.2.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.94.2.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Ilja van Sprundel in a ClamAV bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
ClamAV:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=86638&release_id=643134

Ilja van Sprundel:
https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1266

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