Debian DSA-1263-1 : clamav - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 24776

Synopsis

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

Description

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Clam anti-virus toolkit, which may lead to denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2007-0897 It was discovered that malformed CAB archives may exhaust file descriptors, which allows denial of service.

- CVE-2007-0898 It was discovered that a directory traversal vulnerability in the MIME header parser may lead to denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the clamav packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.15.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 0.88.7-2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 24776

File Name: debian_DSA-1263.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/7/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/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

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0897, CVE-2007-0898

CWE: 22

DSA: 1263

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