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Debian 3.1 DSA 1050-1: Critical ClamAV Freshclam DoS Advisory

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Calendar Grey May 3, 2006
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The Debian Security Advisory DSA 1050-1 pertains to a vulnerability that allows for denial of service and the execution of arbitrary code within ClamAV's freshclam utility.
Ulf H�rnhammar and an anonymous researcher from Germany discovered a vulnerability in the protocol code of freshclam, a command line utility responsible for downloading and ins...
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security advisory denial of service buffer overflow critical remote access clamav debsy:3.1

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.84-2.sarge.9.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.88.2-1.

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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 876 943e000ec0e1286a3dbdf29df42d2079
Size/MD5 checksum: 176085 5e83632aca0a41e5e9e666d7dc9bddb1
Size/MD5 checksum: 4006624 c43213da01d510faf117daa9a4d5326c

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5...

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