Package : clamav Vulnerability : several Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2007-4510 CVE-2007-4560
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Clam anti-virus toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2007-4510
It was discovered that the RTF and RFC2397 parsers can be tricked into dereferencing a NULL pointer, resulting in denial of service.
CVE-2007-4560
It was discovered clamav-milter performs insufficicient input sanitising, resulting in the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
The oldstable distribution (sarge) is only affected by a subset of the problems. An update will be provided later.
For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 0.90.1-3etch7.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.91.2-1.
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 4.0 alias etch - -------------------------------