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Gentoo update for squidclamav


Secunia ID

SA50706

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-3501

Release Date

25 Sep 2012

Criticality

Moderately Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From remote

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

Description

Gentoo has issued an update for squidclamav. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA49057

Solution

Update to "net-proxy/squidclamav-6.8" or later.

Original Advisory

GLSA 201209-08:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201209-08.xml