Package : clamav Vulnerability : several Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2007-1745 CVE-2007-1997 CVE-2007-2029
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Clam anti-virus toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2007-1745
It was discovered that a file descriptor leak in the CHM handler may lead to denial of service.
CVE-2007-1997
It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the CAB handler may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2007-2029
It was discovered that a file descriptor leak in the PDF handler may lead to denial of service.
For the oldstable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.16.
For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 0.90.1-3etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.90.2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your clamav packages. Packages for the arm, sparc, m68k and mipsen architectures are not yet available. They will be provided later.
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 - --------------------------------