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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1771-1 (clamav)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to clamav announced via advisory DSA 1771-1.

Insight

Insight

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the ClamAV anti-virus toolkit: CVE-2008-6680 Attackers can cayse a denial of service (crash) via a crafted EXE file that triggers a divide-by-zero error. CVE-2009-1270 Attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted tar file that causes (1) clamd and (2) clamscan to hang. (no CVE Id yet) Attackers can cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted EXE file that crashes the UPack unpacker. For the old stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 0.90.1dfsg-4etch19. For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 0.94.dfsg.2-1lenny2. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.95.1+dfsg-1. We recommend that you upgrade your clamav packages.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201771-1

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