Security readout for executives and security teams
A malformed TAR archive can make older ClamAV scanners hang instead of finishing the scan. The business impact is service disruption: mail, upload, or file-scanning pipelines relying on ClamAV may stop processing until recovered. Exposure is most likely where ClamAV before 0.95 scans untrusted archives from email gateways, web uploads, shared folders, or automated file-ingestion workflows. Treat this as a legacy availability risk. Prioritize remediation on externally fed scanning infrastructure, because a scanner outage can delay mail delivery, uploads, or security processing. Mitigation focus: Upgrade ClamAV to 0.95 or later through vendor-supported packages.; Review relevant Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, or Apple advisories for platform-specific update guidance.; If upgrade is blocked, restrict untrusted TAR archive scanning paths where operationally possible..
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- clamav-untar-dos(49846)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
- https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1462CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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