Full Disclosure: [SECURITY] [DSA 1238-1] New clamav packages fix several vulnerabilities
[SECURITY] [DSA 1238-1] New clamav packages fix several vulnerabilities
From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm_at_debian.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:05:33 +0100
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1238-1 security_at_debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
December 17th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : clamav
Vulnerability : several
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2006-6406 CVE-2006-6481
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Clam anti-virus
toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:
CVE-2006-6406
Hendrik Weimer discovered that invalid characters in base64 encoded
data may lead to bypass of scanning mechanisms.
CVE-2006-6481
Hendrik Weimer discovered that deeply nested multipart/mime MIME
data may lead to denial of service.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.84-2.sarge.13.
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) these problems have been
fixed in version 0.88.7-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.88.7-1.
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 3.1 alias sarge
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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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