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Ubuntu 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : clamav vulnerabilities (USN-945-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 46752

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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 reallocate memory when processing certain PDF files. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted PDF and crash ClamAV. (CVE-2010-1639)

An out of bounds memory access flaw was discovered in ClamAV. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted Portable Executable (PE) file and crash ClamAV. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
(CVE-2010-2077).

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/945-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 46752

File Name: ubuntu_USN-945-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/28/2010

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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

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:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:clamav-dbg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, 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, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:clamav-daemon, 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: 5/27/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/25/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1639, CVE-2010-1640

BID: 40317, 40318

USN: 945-1