Ubuntu 12.10 USN-1773-1 Moderate: ClamAV Denial Of Service

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March 21, 2013

Several security issues were fixed in ClamAV.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in ClamAV.

Software Description:

- clamav: Anti-virus utility for Unix

Details:

Felix Groebert, Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered multiple

security issues with ClamAV. An attacker could use these issues to cause

ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute

arbitrary code.

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service code execution ubuntu clamav

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.10:
  clamav                          0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.10.1
  clamav-daemon                   0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.10.1
  libclamav6                      0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  clamav                          0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.1
  clamav-daemon                   0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.1
  libclamav6                      0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
  clamav                          0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.11.10.1
  clamav-daemon                   0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.11.10.1
  libclamav6                      0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  clamav                          0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.10.04.1
  clamav-daemon                   0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.10.04.1
  libclamav6                      0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.10.04.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.