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Debian 4.0 DSA-1616-1 Critical: ClamAV Denial Of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey July 24, 2008
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-1 outlines a remedy for OpenSSH's critical flaw. It's advised to update promptly to safeguard against potential breaches.
Damian Put discovered a vulnerability in the ClamAV anti-virus toolkit's parsing of Petite-packed Win32 executables

Summary


For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.90.1dfsg-3etch13. For the unstable distribution (sid), the
problem has been fixed in version 0.93.1.dfsg-1.1.

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

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
- ---------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 213572 2dbfd4ac08c7af42d86f14e36d51a1ba
Size/MD5 checksum: 900 1956339e5b45defa70...

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