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Ubuntu 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : clamav vulnerabilities (USN-926-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 45476

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that ClamAV did not properly verify its input when processing CAB files. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted CAB file to evade malware detection. (CVE-2010-0098)

It was discovered that ClamAV did not properly verify its input when processing CAB files. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted CAB file and cause a denial of service via application crash.
(CVE-2010-1311).

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/926-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 45476

File Name: ubuntu_USN-926-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/9/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:clamav-docs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libclamav6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libclamav-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:clamav-dbg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:clamav-freshclam, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:clamav-testfiles, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:clamav, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:clamav-milter, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:clamav-daemon, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:clamav-base

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/8/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0098, CVE-2010-1311

BID: 39262

USN: 926-1