Debian DSA-1238-1: Critical ClamAV Remote Threat Mitigation

Hendrik Weimer discovered that invalid characters in base64 encoded
data may lead to bypass of scanning mechanisms.

CVE-2006-6481

Hendrik Weimer discovered that deeply nested multipart/mime MIME
data may lead to denial of service.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.84-2.sarge.13.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) these problems have been
fixed in version 0.88.7-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.88.7-1.

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...