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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1660-1] New clamav packages fix denial of service (1/3)

    From Florian Weimer@1:229/2 to All on Sun Oct 26 15:10:12 2008
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1660-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer October 26, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : clamav
    Vulnerability : null pointer derefence, resource exhaustation
    Problem type : local (remote)
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-3912, CVE-2008-3913, CVE-2008-3914

    Several denial-of-service vulnerabilities have been discovered in
    the ClamAV anti-virus toolkit:

    Insufficient checking for out-of-memory conditions results in null
    pointer derefences (CVE-2008-3912).

    Incorrect error handling logic leads to memory leaks (CVE-2008-3913)
    and file descriptor leaks (CVE-2008-3914).

    For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
    version 0.90.1dfsg-4etch15.

    For the unstable distribution (sid) and the testing distribution
    (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 0.94.dfsg-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 4.0 alias etch
    - -------------------------------

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 211673 f32684dc7b5c10438ed72ed8c522ced8
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.90.1dfsg.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 11610428 6dc18602b0aa653924d47316f9411e49
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 900 5c1aca2a402b405e027e79c7d9fdde39

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-docs_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1005428 058124325863f5c4d6009547b81d3d10
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-base_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 202184 24e50f137412d6432f489f0c0bccefa2
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-testfiles_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 158456 ee5378f52517374ecc6d45d0954a8da8

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav2_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 372930 f51ff2874a06cf834e586ffd629935a4
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 182734 5c0db34ae38a22c21513210c00c3c69b
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 465258 e5745dfa0c5a1b59e19fcce6743b8ea6
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 9305242 c8970fe72c484513f6b405b5bbc2107f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 862312 196a2f722ea12a073ab81ca361a4c8a4
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-dbg_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 597822 f183a3e677f0eda5196f32e164c74bcd
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 180882 91a8a71ea5822c9bb74907d1c273c6a8

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav2_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 341716 cf6f3fa99270adead786b673311f8d61
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 9301976 2876b674f6cea7d15c5157e2de2328ee
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 355170 de088b17a337d686b4621770fe4f9857
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 856710 666d145be4f30dff32fa4ea4a7baf3cf
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-dbg_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 593892 f998497019eda5c09b4b9d72b28a20cd
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 177632 012e805063b0f0d0add72b3b7e31bc27
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 178214 9cb0fd2d134382ab68377ea080354c39

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 175958 61f2238a6151d710f61898a69a7f17dd
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-dbg_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 554314 eeca09ab4e6114c1647f58e056bbbe88
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav2_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 335754 a4455a0a045e44d7fe4e78e3138f9839
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 336508 7381b097f4239890fd7ecf3604b18a7b
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 853888 cc8eb16ceef93c5dc7a344c31b76a1c4
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 9299654 079be0e85b9488a6c1a79e47fa473697
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.90.1dfsg-4etch15_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 171826 4caa4c8de5d905072458b20c47fe6cf7

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)


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