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Debian DSA-824-1 : clamav - infinite loop, buffer overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 19793

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Clam AntiVirus, the antivirus scanner for Unix, designed for integration with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. The following problems were identified :

 - CAN-2005-2919 A potentially infinite loop could lead to a denial of service.

 - CAN-2005-2920

 A buffer overflow could lead to a denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the clamav package.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain ClamAV packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.4.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=328660

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-824

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19793

File Name: debian_DSA-824.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:clamav, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/19/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2919, CVE-2005-2920

CERT: 363713

DSA: 824