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Message-ID: <20090409125038.GA2951@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:50:39 +0200
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: clamav clamd and clamscan DoS and bypass by malformated archive

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 02:41:31PM +0200, Hanno Böck wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 09 April 2009 schrieb Tomas Hoger:
> > Upstream 0.95.1 seems to fix at least 2 other issues that may be of
> > interest:
> >
> > https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1552
> > https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1553
> >
> > svn diff -c 5032 http://svn.clamav.net/svn/clamav-devel/
> 
> Stupid question but is it common clamav policy to not mention security 
> releases? Anyone any info about that?
> 
> This is a bit frightening for a "security" product (they have a menu 
> point "security" on their website but it seems they don't tend to fill it 
> with information...)

I think our clamav package maintainer tried to inject some clues
into their processes, but so far it does not seem to have helped. :/

Ciao, Marcus

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