Package : clamav Vulnerability : heap overflow Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE IDs : CVE-2006-0162 Debian Bug : 320014
A heap overflow has been discovered in ClamAV, a virus scanner, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a carefully crafted UPX-encoded executable to a system runnig ClamAV. In addition, other potential overflows have been corrected.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not include ClamAV.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.7.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.86.2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your clamav package immediately.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------