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Fedora 22 ClamAV Upgrade Critical: PDF Processing Improvements

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Calendar Grey May 3, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Updates feature enhanced document handling and corrections for manipulated file failures in ClamAV on Fedora 22.
ClamAV 0.98.7 This release contains new scanning features and bug fixes

Summary

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.

Update Information:

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...

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1217206 - CVE-2015-2221: clamav Infinite loop condition on crafted y0da cryptor file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217206 [ 2 ] Bug #1217207 - CVE-2015-2222 clamav: crash on crafted petite packed file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217207 [ 3 ] Bug #1217208 - CVE-2015-2668 clamav: Infinite loop condition on a crafted "xz" archive file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217208 [ 4 ] Bug #1217209 - CVE-2015-2170: clamav: Crash in upx decoder with crafted file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217209

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update clamav' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: clamav
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 0.98.7
Release: 1.fc22
Summary: End-user tools for the Clam Antivirus scanner

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