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Debian: DSA 1024-1 Critical: Clamav Multiple Remote Exec Threats

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Calendar Grey April 5, 2006
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Debian community alerted to address vulnerabilities within clamav; users urged to upgrade for enhanced protection and stability.
Updated package.

Summary


Damian Put discovered an integer overflow in the PE header parser.
This is only exploitable if the ArchiveMaxFileSize option is disabled.

CVE-2006-1615

Format string vulnerabilities in the logging code have been discovered,
which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2006-1630

David Luyer discovered, that ClamAV can be tricked into an invalid
memory access in the cli_bitset_set() function, which may lead to
a denial of service.

The old stable distribution (woody) doesn't contain clamav packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.84-2.sarge.8.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.88.1-1.

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 ...

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