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                From the low-hanging-fruit-department
                    Clamav generic evasion (CAB)
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Release mode: Coordinated but limited disclosure.
Ref         : [TZO-43-2009] - Clamav generic evasion (CAB)
WWW         : http://blog.zoller.lu/2009/05/advisory-clamav-generic-evasion-cab.html 
Vendor      : http://www.clamav.net &
              http://www.sourcefire.com/products/clamav    
Status      : Patched (in version 0.95.2)
CVE         : none provided
Security notification reaction rating : good


Disclosure Policy : http://blog.zoller.lu/2008/09/notification-and-disclosure-policy.html

Affected products : 
- ClamAV below 0.96

Affected systems:
- MACOSX server,
- IBM Secure E-mail Express Solution for System
Others : http://www.clamav.net/about/who-use-clamav/

I. Background
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Quote: "Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, 
designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides 
a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded
daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic 
database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine 
available in a form of shared library. "

II. Description
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The parsing engine can be bypassed by manipulating CAB (Filesize) archives 
in a "certain way" that the Clamav engine cannot extract the content but
the end user is able to. 

III. Impact
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To know more about the impact and type of "evasion", I updated the 
description at http://blog.zoller.lu/2009/04/case-for-av-bypassesevasions.html

IV. Disclosure timeline
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DD/MM/YYYY

Nothing particular too note.