Ubuntu: USN-1234-1 Severe: OpenSSL Denial of Service Flaw
debian
August 18, 2006
Damian Put discovered a heap overflow vulneravility in the UPX unpacker of the ClamAV anti-virus toolkit which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause denia...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.88.4-0volatile1 in the volatile archive.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.88.4-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your clamav packages.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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 manager, use the line for
sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 874 579ac9552dbc0075d4d087042c231804
Size/MD5 checksum: 176298 01bb523d1fd48f70a3277e12b965d426
Size/MD5 checksum: 4006624 c43213da01d510faf117daa9a4d5326c
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