[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200812-21 ] ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200812-21

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Severity: High

Title: ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities

Date: December 23, 2008

Bugs: #245450, #249833

ID: 200812-21

 

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Synopsis

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Two vulnerabilities in ClamAV may allow for the remote execution of

arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.

 

Background

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Clam AntiVirus is a free anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed

especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways.

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 app-antivirus/clamav < 0.94.2 >= 0.94.2

 

Description

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Moritz Jodeit reported an off-by-one error within the

get_unicode_name() function in libclamav/vba_extract.c when processing

VBA project files (CVE-2008-5050). Ilja van Sprundel reported an

infinite recursion error within the cli_check_jpeg_exploit() function

in libclamav/special.c when processing JPEG files (CVE-2008-5314).

 

Impact

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A remote attacker could send a specially crafted VBA or JPEG file to

the clamd daemon, possibly resulting in the remote execution of

arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application

or a Denial of Service.

 

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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All ClamAV users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-antivirus/clamav-0.94.2"

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-5050

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5050

[ 2 ] CVE-2008-5314

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5314

 

Availability

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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-21.xml

 

Concerns?

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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the

confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost

importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to

security ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

http://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5