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Debian: DSA-1660-1 Critical: ClamAV Denial Of Service Advisory

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Calendar Grey October 26, 2008
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Mitigating service disruptions in Debian's ClamAV framework through thorough remedies and enhancement procedures.
Several denial-of-service vulnerabilities have been discovered in the ClamAV anti-virus toolkit: Insufficient checking for out-of-memory conditions results in null pointer deref...

Summary


Incorrect error handling logic leads to memory leaks (CVE-2008-3913)
and file descriptor leaks (CVE-2008-3914).

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.90.1dfsg-4etch15.

For the unstable distribution (sid) and the testing distribution
(lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 0.94.dfsg-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 4.0 alias etch

Size/MD5 checksum: 211673 f32684dc7b5c10438ed72ed8c522ced8
Size/MD5 checksum: 11610428 6dc18602b0...

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