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Debian DSA-947-2 : clamav - heap overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 22813

Synopsis

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

Description

A heap overflow has been discovered in ClamAV, a virus scanner, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a carefully crafted UPX-encoded executable to a system running ClamAV.
In addition, other potential overflows have been corrected.

Packages for the ARM architecture were not available when DSA 947-1 was released; these packages are now available. Also, DSA 947-1 incorrectly identified the package version which corrected these issues in the unstable distribution (sid).

Solution

Upgrade the clamav package immediately.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not include ClamAV.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.7.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=320014

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-947

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 22813

File Name: debian_DSA-947.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0162

BID: 16191

DSA: 947