Fedora 20: clamav Security Advisory - Critical Scanning Enhancements

Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this

software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The

package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command

line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs

are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package,

which you can use with your own software. The virus database is based on

the virus database from OpenAntiVirus, but contains additional signatures

(including signatures for popular polymorphic viruses, too) and is KEPT UP

TO DATE.

ClamAV 0.98.7 ============ This release contains new scanning features and bug fixes.

- Improvements to PDF processing: decryption, escape sequence handling, and file property collection. - Scanning/analysis of additional Microsoft Office 2003 XML format. - Fix infinite loop condition on crafted y0da cryptor file. Identified and patch suggested by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior. CVE-2015-2221. - Fix crash on crafted petite packed file. Reported and patch supplied by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior. CVE-2015-2222. - Fix false negatives on files within iso9660 containers. This issue was reported by Minzhuan Gong. - Fix a couple crashes on crafted upack packed file. Identified and patches supplied by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior. - Fix a crash during algorithmic detection on crafted PE file. Identified and patch supplied by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior. - Fix an infinite loop condition on a crafted "xz" archive file. This was reported by Dimitri Kirchner and Goulven Guiheux. C...