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Debian: DSA 1232-1 Critical: Clamav Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey December 9, 2006
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Important patch released for ClamAV resolves potential service disruption vulnerability in Debian systems. Immediate upgrade advised to maintain optimal security.
Updated package.

Summary


For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been
fixed in version 0.86-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.86-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your clamav package.


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

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 5b916037233c2d9d181ea83f1d42d712
Size/MD5 checksum: 177238 a782b435ee944e318fc88c4a0cdb67b2
Size/MD5 checksum: 4006624 c43213da01d510faf117daa9a4d5326c

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 ch...

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