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Fedora 40 : clamav (2024-34474f346b)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194988

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-34474f346b advisory.

 ClamAV 1.0.6 is a critical patch release with the following fixes:

 * Updated select Rust dependencies to the latest versions. This resolved Cargo audit complaints and included PNG parser bug fixes.

 * GitHub pull request<https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav/pull/1225>
 * Fixed a bug causing some text to be truncated when converting from UTF-16.

 * GitHub pull request<https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav/pull/1232>
 * Fixed assorted complaints identified by Coverity static analysis.

 * GitHub pull request<https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav/pull/1237>
 * Fixed a bug causing CVDs downloaded by the DatabaseCustomURL Freshclam config option to be pruned and then re-downloaded with every update.

 * GitHub pull request<https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav/pull/1240>
 * Added the new 'valhalla' database name to the list of optional databases in preparation for future work.

 * GitHub pull request<https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav/pull/1240>
 * Silenced a warning Unexpected early end-of-file that occured when scanning some PNG files.

 * GitHub pull request<https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav/pull/1216>

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected clamav package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-34474f346b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194988

File Name: fedora_2024-34474f346b.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/5/2024

Updated: 7/18/2024

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:clamav, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/26/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/26/2024

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