Bug 1483910 (CVE-2017-6420) - CVE-2017-6420 clamav: use-after-free in wwunpack function
Summary: CVE-2017-6420 clamav: use-after-free in wwunpack function
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-6420
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1483911 1483912
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-22 09:09 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-09-26 05:41:34 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-08-22 09:09:20 UTC 
The wwunpack function in libclamav/wwunpack.c in ClamAV 0.99.2 allows
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via a
crafted PE file with WWPack compression.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-devel/commit/dfc00cd3301a42b571454b51a6102eecf58407bc
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-08-22 09:10:14 UTC 
Created clamav tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1483912]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1483911]
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