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Mageia 7 MGASA-2019-0328: Critical Denial Of Service Threat Resolved

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
New ClamAV updates address critical security flaws in Mageia 7. Major threats involve potential denial of service attacks.
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: ClamAV versions prior to 0.101.3 are susceptible to a zip bomb vulnerability where an unauthenticated attacker can cause a denia...

Summary

The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities:
ClamAV versions prior to 0.101.3 are susceptible to a zip bomb vulnerability where an unauthenticated attacker can cause a denial of service condition by sending crafted messages to an affected system. (CVE-2019-12625)
BZ2_decompress in decompress.c in bzip2 through 1.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write when there are many selectors. (CVE-2019-12900)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25231

- https://blog.clamav.net/2019/08/clamav-01013-security-patch-release-and.html

- https://blog.clamav.net/2019/08/clamav-01014-security-patch-release-has.html

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/06/3

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4146-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12625

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12900

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Topics Covered

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Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/clamav-0.101.4-1.1.mga7

- 7/core/c-icap-modules-extra-0.5.3-1.mga7

- 7/core/ecap-clamav-2.0.0-3.1.mga7

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Publication date: 19 Nov 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0328.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-12625, CVE-2019-12900

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update clamav Mageia zip bomb fixed patches

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