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Debian 3.1: DSA-888-1 Urgent: Several ClamAV Security Issues

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Calendar Grey November 7, 2005
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Summary


The OLE2 unpacker allows remote attackers to cause a segmentation
fault via a DOC file with an invalid property tree, which triggers
an infinite recursion.

CVE-2005-3303

A specially crafted executable compressed with FSG 1.33 could
cause the extractor to write beyond buffer boundaries, allowing an
attacker to execute arbitrary code.

CVE-2005-3500

A specially crafted CAB file could cause ClamAV to be locked in an
infinite loop and use all available processor resources, resulting
in a denial of service.

CVE-2005-3501

A specially crafted CAB file could cause ClamAV to be locked in an
infinite loop and use all available processor resources, resulting
in a denial of service.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain clamav packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.84-2.sarge.6.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.87.1-1.

We reco...

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