Debian 4.0 DSA-1549-1 Moderate: Clamav Buffer Overflow Remote Threat

debian

April 17, 2008

Damian Put discovered that a buffer overflow in the handler for PeSpin binaries may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow debian remote threat clamav

Summary

Damian Put discovered that a buffer overflow in the handler for
PeSpin binaries may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2008-1100

Alin Rad Pop discovered that a buffer overflow in the handler for
Upack PE binaries may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

no CVE yet

Damian Put and Thomas Pollet discovered that a buffer overflow in
the handler for WWPack-compressed PE binaries may lead to the
execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed
in version 0.90.1-3etch11.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.92.1~dfsg2-1

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 inter...