CVE-2011-3627

First published: Tue Oct 18 2011(Updated: )

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the bytecode engine of the Clam Antivirus scanner handled recursion level when scanning an unpacked file. If a local user was tricked into scanning a file or directory with 'load bytecode from the database' feature enabled, it could lead to clamscan executable crash. References: [1] <a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387521">https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387521</a> [2] <a href="http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/18/1">http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/18/1</a> [3] <a href="http://git.clamav.net/gitweb?p=clamav-devel.git;a=blob_plain;f=ChangeLog;hb=clamav-0.97.3">http://git.clamav.net/gitweb?p=clamav-devel.git;a=blob_plain;f=ChangeLog;hb=clamav-0.97.3</a> Upstream patch: [4] <a href="http://git.clamav.net/gitweb?p=clamav-devel.git;a=commit;h=3d664817f6ef833a17414a4ecea42004c35cc42f">http://git.clamav.net/gitweb?p=clamav-devel.git;a=commit;h=3d664817f6ef833a17414a4ecea42004c35cc42f</a>

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

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