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Debian 4.0 DSA 1320-1 Important: ClamAV Memory Overflow Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey June 29, 2007
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Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Clam anti-virus toolkit

Summary


It was discovered that the OLE2 parser can be tricked into an infinite
loop and memory exhaustion.

CVE-2007-3023

It was discovered that the NsPack decompression code performed
insufficient sanitising on an internal length variable, resulting in
a potential buffer overflow.

CVE-2007-3024

It was discovered that temporary files were created with insecure
permissions, resulting in information disclosure.

CVE-2007-3122

It was discovered that the decompression code for RAR archives allows
bypassing a scan of a RAR archive due to insufficient validity checks.

CVE-2007-3123

It was discovered that the decompression code for RAR archives performs
insufficient validation of header values, resulting in a buffer overflow.

For the oldstable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.84-2.sarge.17. Please note that the fix for CVE-2007-3024 hasn't
been backported to oldstable.

For the stable distribution (etch) these prob...

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