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GLSA-200605-03 : ClamAV: Buffer overflow in Freshclam

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21318

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200605-03 (ClamAV: Buffer overflow in Freshclam)

 Ulf Harnhammar and an anonymous German researcher discovered that Freshclam fails to check the size of the header data returned by a webserver.
 Impact :

 By enticing a user to connect to a malicious webserver an attacker could cause the execution of arbitrary code.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All ClamAV users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-antivirus/clamav-0.88.2'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200605-03

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21318

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200605-03.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 5/3/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:clamav, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/2/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/1/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1989

GLSA: 200605-03