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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1366-1 security_at_debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
September 1st, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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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
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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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These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce_at_lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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Received on Sep 01 2007
