Package : clamav Vulnerability : several Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-1614 CVE-2006-1615 CVE-2006-1630
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the ClamAV anti-virus toolkit, which may lead to denial of service and potentially to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2006-1614
Damian Put discovered an integer overflow in the PE header parser. This is only exploitable if the ArchiveMaxFileSize option is disabled.
CVE-2006-1615
Format string vulnerabilities in the logging code have been discovered, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2006-1630
David Luyer discovered, that ClamAV can be tricked into an invalid memory access in the cli_bitset_set() function, which may lead to a denial of service.
The old stable distribution (woody) doesn't contain clamav packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.8.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.88.1-1.
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 - --------------------------------