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Debian DSA-1050-1 : clamav - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22592

Synopsis

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

Description

Ulf Harnhammar and an anonymous researcher from Germany discovered a vulnerability in the protocol code of freshclam, a command line utility responsible for downloading and installing virus signature updates for ClamAV, the antivirus scanner for Unix. This could lead to a denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the clamav packages.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain clamav packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.9.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1050

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22592

File Name: debian_DSA-1050.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/2/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/1/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1989

BID: 17754

DSA: 1050