Package : clamav Vulnerability : several Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-6406 CVE-2006-6481
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Clam anti-virus toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2006-6406
Hendrik Weimer discovered that invalid characters in base64 encoded data may lead to bypass of scanning mechanisms.
CVE-2006-6481
Hendrik Weimer discovered that deeply nested multipart/mime MIME data may lead to denial of service.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.13.
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 0.88.7-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.88.7-1.
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 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 - --------------------------------