GLSA 200805-19: ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities
Severity: | high |
Title: | ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities |
Date: | 05/20/2008 |
Bugs: |
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ID: | 200805-19 |
Synopsis
Multiple vulnerabilities in ClamAV may result in the remote execution of arbitrary code.Background
Clam AntiVirus is a free anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways.
Affected packages
Package | Vulnerable | Unaffected | Architecture(s) |
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app-antivirus/clamav | < 0.93 | >= 0.93 | All supported architectures |
Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported:
- Damian Put reported a heap-based buffer overflow when processing PeSpin packed PE binaries (CVE-2008-0314).
- Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research reported a buffer overflow in the cli_scanpe() function when processing Upack PE binaries (CVE-2008-1100).
- Hanno Boeck reported an infinite loop when processing ARJ archives (CVE-2008-1387).
- Damian Put and Thomas Pollet reported a heap-based buffer overflow when processing WWPack compressed PE binaries (CVE-2008-1833).
- A buffer over-read was discovered in the rfc2231() function when producing a string that is not NULL terminated (CVE-2008-1836).
- An unspecified vulnerability leading to "memory problems" when scanning RAR files was reported (CVE-2008-1837).
- Thierry Zoller reported that scanning of RAR files could be circumvented (CVE-2008-1835).
Impact
A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to scan a specially crafted file, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running ClamAV (either a system user or the "clamav" user if clamd is compromised), or a Denial of Service.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All ClamAV users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-antivirus/clamav-0.93"
References
Availability
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Concerns?
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License
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