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Debian: DSA-948-1 Urgent: OpenSSL Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2006
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A buffer overflow vulnerability was addressed in ClamAV, allowing individuals to enhance system security and guard against external threats.
A heap overflow has been discovered in ClamAV, a virus scanner, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a carefully crafted UPX-encoded executable to a...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.84-2.sarge.7.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.86.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your clamav package immediately.


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

Size/MD5 checksum: 872 df3aecc6060155de842ad1851143d85c
Size/MD5 checksum: 179637 b25e29ec071c32768df2689f3d7061a4
Size/MD5 checksum: 4006624 c43213da01d510faf117daa9a4d5326c

Architecture independent components:

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