Package : clamav Vulnerability : infinite loop, buffer overflow Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2919 CAN-2005-2920 Debian Bug : 328660
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Clam AntiVirus, the antivirus scanner for Unix, designed for integration with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. The following problems were identified:
CAN-2005-2919
A potentially infinite loop could lead to a denial of service.
CAN-2005-2920
A buffer overflow could lead to a denial of service.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain ClamAV packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.87-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your clamav package.
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 - --------------------------------