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ClamAV Requires Immediate Upgrade

Thursday, February 10, 2005
Author: Richard S. Westmoreland
Permalink: 200502101449258

General News

If you have any open-source products running ClamAV at your company, update or contact the vendor of your product for a confirmation of an update immediately.

ClamAV subject to different attacks

The vulnerable version of ClamAV allows a special zip file to crash the clamd daemon. Also a base64 encoded image could bypass the scanner.

ClamAV has become a popular antivirus in the use of spam filtering products.