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Debian 3.1 DSA 776-1 Critical: ClamAV Integer Overflow and DoS

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Calendar Grey August 16, 2005
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Debian Security Update regarding ClamAV highlights severe integer overflow vulnerabilities, urging immediate system upgrades.
Updated package.

Summary


Neel Mehta and Alex Wheeler discovered that Clam AntiVirus is
vulnerable to integer overflows when handling the TNEF, CHM and
FSG file formats.

CVE-NOMATCH

Mark Pizzolato fixed a possible infinete loop that could cause a
denial of service.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected as it doesn't contain clamav.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.84-2.sarge.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.86.2-1.

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 fr...

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