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Debian DSA-1771-1 : clamav - several vulnerabilities
high Nessus Plugin ID 36164
Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.Description
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the ClamAV anti-virus toolkit :- CVE-2008-6680 Attackers can cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted EXE file that triggers a divide-by-zero error.
- CVE-2009-1270 Attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted tar file that causes (1) clamd and (2) clamscan to hang.
- (no CVE Id yet)
Attackers can cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted EXE file that crashes the UPack unpacker.
Solution
Upgrade the clamav packages.For the old stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 0.90.1dfsg-4etch19.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 0.94.dfsg.2-1lenny2.
See Also
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-6680
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 36164
File Name: debian_DSA-1771.nasl
Version: 1.15
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 4/16/2009
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: High
Base Score: 7.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:clamav, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 4/15/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-6680, CVE-2009-1270