CVE-2002-1109: Amavis Virus Scanner

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Scanner: up to and including 0.2.1

Published 2002-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.