Debian 3.1 DSA 1196-1 Critical: ClamAV Remote Code Execution

Damian Put discovered a heap overflow error in the script to rebuild
PE files, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2006-5295

Damian Put discovered that missing input sanitising in the CHM
handling code might lead to denial of service.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.84-2.sarge.11. Due to technical problems with the build host
this update lacks a build for the Sparc architecture. It will be
provided soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.88.5-1.

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 below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

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