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openSUSE 15.0: 2018:2259-1 Moderate ClamAV Buffer Over-Read Fix

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Calendar Grey August 9, 2018
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Successful Fedora security patch rectifies several vulnerabilities in clamav, enhancing both parsing accuracy and overall efficiency.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available.

Description

This update for clamav to version 0.100.1 fixes the following issues:

The following security vulnerabilities were addressed:

- CVE-2018-0360: HWP integer overflow, infinite loop vulnerability

(bsc#1101410)

- CVE-2018-0361: PDF object length check, unreasonably long time to parse

relatively small file (bsc#1101412)

- Buffer over-read in unRAR code due to missing max value checks in table

initialization

- Libmspack heap buffer over-read in CHM parser (bsc#1103040)

- PDF parser bugs

The following other changes were made:

- Disable YARA support for licensing reasons (bsc#1101654).

- Add HTTPS support for clamsubmit

- Fix for DNS resolution for users on IPv4-only machines where IPv6 is not

available or is link-local only

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update integer overflow ClamAV buffer over-read openSUSE

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-838=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

clamav-0.100.1-lp150.2.3.1

clamav-debuginfo-0.100.1-lp150.2.3.1

clamav-debugsource-0.100.1-lp150.2.3.1

clamav-devel-0.100.1-lp150.2.3.1

libclamav7-0.100.1-lp150.2.3.1

libclamav7-debuginfo-0.100.1-lp150.2.3.1

libclammspack0-0.100.1-lp150.2.3.1

libclammspack0-debuginfo-0.100.1-lp150.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0360.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0361.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1101410

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1101412

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1101654

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1103040

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2259-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0 le.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update integer overflow ClamAV buffer over-read openSUSE

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