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SuSE 11.3 Security Update : clamav (SAT Patch Number 10016)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79760

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Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.

Description

clamav was updated to version 0.98.5 to fix three security issues and several non-security issues.

These security issues have been fixed :

 - Crash when scanning maliciously crafted yoda's crypter files. (CVE-2013-6497)

 - Heap-based buffer overflow when scanning crypted PE files. (CVE-2014-9050)

 - Crash when using 'clamscan -a'. These non-security issues have been fixed :

 - Support for the XDP file format and extracting, decoding, and scanning PDF files within XDP files.

 - Addition of shared library support for LLVM versions 3.1
 - 3.5 for the purpose of just-in-time(JIT) compilation of ClamAV bytecode signatures.

 - Enhancements to the clambc command line utility to assist ClamAV bytecode signature authors by providing introspection into compiled bytecode programs.

 - Resolution of many of the warning messages from ClamAV compilation.

 - Improved detection of malicious PE files.

 - ClamAV 0.98.5 now works with OpenSSL in FIPS compliant mode. (bnc#904207)

 - Fix server socket setup code in clamd. (bnc#903489)

 - Change updateclamconf to prefer the state of the old config file even for commented-out options. (bnc#903719)

 - Fix infinite loop in clamdscan when clamd is not running.

 - Fix buffer underruns when handling multi-part MIME email attachments.

 - Fix configuration of OpenSSL on various platforms.

 - Fix linking issues with libclamunrar.

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 10016.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903489

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903719

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904207

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906077

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906770

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6497.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9050.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79760

File Name: suse_11_clamav-141125.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/6/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:clamav

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/25/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6497, CVE-2014-9050