Package : clamav
Vulnerability : buffer overflow, stack consumption
Problem type : local (remote)
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-5050 CVE-2008-5314
Debian Bug : 505134 507624
Moritz Jodeit discovered that ClamAV, an anti-virus solution, suffers
from an off-by-one-error in its VBA project file processing, leading to
a heap-based buffer overflow and potentially arbitrary code execution (CVE-2008-5050).
Ilja van Sprundel discovered that ClamAV contains a denial of service
condition in its JPEG file processing because it does not limit the
recursion depth when processing JPEG thumbnails (CVE-2008-5314).
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.90.1dfsg-4etch16.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.94.dfsg.2-1.
The testing distribution (lenny) will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your clamav packages.
Upgrade instructions
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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
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