Debian DSA-1497-1 : clamav - several vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 31102

Synopsis

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

Description

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

- CVE-2007-6595 It was discovered that temporary files are created insecurely, which may result in local denial of service by overwriting files.

- CVE-2008-0318 Silvio Cesare discovered an integer overflow in the parser for PE headers.

The version of clamav in the old stable distribution (sarge) is no longer supported with security updates.

Solution

Upgrade the clamav packages.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 0.90.1dfsg-3etch10. In addition to these fixes, this update also incorporates changes from the upcoming point release of the stable distribution (non-free RAR handling code was removed).

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-6595

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-0318

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1497

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 31102

File Name: debian_DSA-1497.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/18/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:clamav, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6595, CVE-2008-0318

BID: 27751

CWE: 189, 59

DSA: 1497