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Fedora 8 : clamav-0.92.1-4.fc8 (2008-9651)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 34775

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fixes from upstream 0.94 and 0.94.1: CVE-2008-3912 (#461461):
Multiple out-of-memory NULL pointer dereferences CVE-2008-3913 (#461461): Fix memory leak in the error code path in freshclam CVE-2008-3914 (#461461): File descriptor leak on the error code path CVE-2008-5050 (#470783): get_unicode_name() off-by-one buffer overflow

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected clamav package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461461

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470783

http://www.nessus.org/u?732943be

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 34775

File Name: fedora_2008-9651.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/16/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:clamav, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1389, CVE-2008-3912, CVE-2008-3913, CVE-2008-3914, CVE-2008-5050

BID: 31051, 32207

CWE: 119, 200, 399

FEDORA: 2008-9651