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Re: ClamAV Multiple Rem0te Buffer Overflows


From: list () rem0te com
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:06:30 +0000

But then the advisory only lists 3 formats.

So, was this just a typo by the researchers? Or are there really 4
bugs, and the latest release still has one bug that hasn't been fixed
yet?

This demonstrates one of the Four I's of security advisory problems,
namely Inconsistency. The other three are Inaccurate, Incomplete, or
Incomprehensible.

The advisory on rem0te.com is correct. On the same note, the release notes by clamav are not completely wrong. They 
fixed the same mistake in two different processors for the same format. So clamav is probably counting the two 
instances of the same mistake as one mistake.

Specifically, one of the formats (TNEF) contained two processors with the same mistake: tnef_message() & 
tnef_attachment(). Both were fixed by the clamav team in 0.86.2.








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