Package : clamav Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-4018 BugTraq ID : 19381
Damian Put discovered a heap overflow vulneravility in the UPX unpacker of the ClamAV anti-virus toolkit which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause denial of service.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.10.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.88.4-0volatile1 in the volatile archive.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.88.4-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your clamav packages.
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 at the end of this advisory:
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 - --------------------------------