Debian DSA-1281-1 : clamav - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 25098

Synopsis

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

Description

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Clam anti-virus toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2007-1745 It was discovered that a file descriptor leak in the CHM handler may lead to denial of service.

- CVE-2007-1997 It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the CAB handler may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

- CVE-2007-2029 It was discovered that a file descriptor leak in the PDF handler may lead to denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the clamav packages. Packages for the arm, sparc, m68k, mips and mipsel architectures are not yet available. They will be provided later.

For the oldstable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.16.

For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 0.90.1-3etch1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25098

File Name: debian_DSA-1281.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/30/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:clamav, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/25/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1745, CVE-2007-1997, CVE-2007-2029

CWE: 399

DSA: 1281

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