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

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Calendar Grey April 17, 2008
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The Debian Security Advisory DSA-1598-1 covers several security vulnerabilities related to OpenSSL.
Damian Put discovered that a buffer overflow in the handler for PeSpin binaries may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

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...

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