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Debian DSA-737-1 : clamav - remote denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18629

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

A number of potential remote denial of service vulnerabilities have been identified in ClamAV. In addition to the four issues identified by CVE ID above, there are fixes for issues in libclamav/cvd.c and libclamav/message.c. Together, these issues could allow a carefully crafted message to crash a ClamAV scanner or exhaust various resources on the machine running the scanner.

Solution

Upgrade the clamav package.

For the stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.1.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-737

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18629

File Name: debian_DSA-737.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/6/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:clamav, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/23/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1922, CVE-2005-1923, CVE-2005-2056, CVE-2005-2070

DSA: 737