Package : clamav Vulnerability : several Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2007-2650 CVE-2007-3023 CVE-2007-3024 CVE-2007-3122 CVE-2007-3123
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Clam anti-virus toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2007-2650
It was discovered that the OLE2 parser can be tricked into an infinite loop and memory exhaustion.
CVE-2007-3023
It was discovered that the NsPack decompression code performed insufficient sanitising on an internal length variable, resulting in a potential buffer overflow.
CVE-2007-3024
It was discovered that temporary files were created with insecure permissions, resulting in information disclosure.
CVE-2007-3122
It was discovered that the decompression code for RAR archives allows bypassing a scan of a RAR archive due to insufficient validity checks.
CVE-2007-3123
It was discovered that the decompression code for RAR archives performs insufficient validation of header values, resulting in a buffer overflow.
For the oldstable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.17. Please note that the fix for CVE-2007-3024 hasn't been backported to oldstable.
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. An updated package for oldstable/powerpc is not yet available. It 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 - --------------------------------