It was discovered that temporary files are created insecurely,
which may result in local denial of service by overwriting files.
CVE-2008-0318
Silvio Cesare discovered an integer overflow in the parser for PE
headers.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.90.1dfsg-3etch10. In addition to these fixes, this update
also incorporates changes from the upcoming point release of the
stable distribution (non-free RAR handling code was removed).
The version of clamav in the old stable distribution (sarge) is no
longer supported with security updates.
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 inst...
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