Debian 4.0 DSA-1680-1 Critical ClamAV Buffer Overflow Threat
debian
December 4, 2008
Moritz Jodeit discovered that ClamAV, an anti-virus solution, suffers
from an off-by-one-error in its VBA project file processing, leading to
a heap-based buffer overflow and pot...
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.90.1dfsg-4etch16.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.94.dfsg.2-1.
The testing distribution (lenny) will be fixed soon.
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
Size/MD5 checksum: 11610428 6dc18602b0aa653924d47316f9411e49
Size/MD5 checksum: 908 ebc60299a69aab41dfdb77e667e2857c
Size/MD5 checksum: 216130 5ae1da1b6351a13b5c385919960ca9b7
Ar...
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