CVE-2002-1109

Description

securetar, as used in AMaViS shell script 0.2.1 and earlier, allows users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed TAR file, possibly via an incorrect file size parameter.

Affected products

• amavis / virus_scanner0.2.1

References

• MAILING_LISThttp://marc.info/?l=amavis-announce&m=103121272122242&w=2
• MISChttp://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10056.php
• MAILING_LISThttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103124270321404&w=2