Fedora 21 : clamav-0.98.5-1.fc21 (2014-15434)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79772

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

ClamAV 0.98.5 =============

ClamAV 0.98.5 also includes these new features and bug fixes :

- Support for the XDP file format and extracting, decoding, and scanning PDF files within XDP files.
Addition of shared library support for LLVM versions 3.1
- 3.5 for the purpose of just-in-time(JIT) compilation of ClamAV bytecode signatures. Andreas Cadhalpun submitted the patch implementing this support.

- Enhancements to the clambc command line utility to assist ClamAV bytecode signature authors by providing introspection into compiled bytecode programs.

- Resolution of many of the warning messages from ClamAV compilation.

- Improved detection of malicious PE files.

- Security fix for ClamAV crash when using 'clamscan
-a'. This issue was identified by Kurt Siefried of Red Hat.

- Security fix for ClamAV crash when scanning maliciously crafted yoda's crypter files. This issue, as well as several other bugs fixed in this release, were identified by Damien Millescamp of Oppida.

- ClamAV 0.98.5 now works with OpenSSL in FIPS compliant mode. Thanks to Reinhard Max for supplying the patch.

- Bug fixes and other feature enhancements.

Please see the ChangeLog file or GIT log for further details.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79772

File Name: fedora_2014-15434.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 12/7/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:clamav, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/20/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6497, CVE-2014-9050

BID: 71178, 71242

FEDORA: 2014-15434

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