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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.
Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package ...
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