SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : clamav (SUSE-SU-2014:0414-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83615

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The antivirus scanner ClamAV has been updated to version 0.98.1, which includes the following fixes :

- Code quality fixes in libclamav, clamd, sigtool, clamav-milter, clamconf, and clamdtop.

- Code quality fixes in libclamav, libclamunrar and freshclam.

- bb #8385: a PDF ASCII85Decode zero-length fix.

- bb #7436: elf64 header early exit.

- libclamav: SCAN_ALL mode fixes.

- iso9660: iso_scan_file rewrite.

Version 0.98.1 also implements support for new file types, and quality improvements, including Extraction, decompression, and scanning of files within the Extensible Archive (XAR)/Apple Disk Image (DMG) format, support for decompression and scanning of files in the 'Xz' compression format.

Additionally, improvements and fixes were done to extraction and scanning of OLE formats. An option to force all scanned data to disk was added. Various improvements to ClamAV configuration, support of third-party libraries, and unit tests were done.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-clamav-9036

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-clamav-9036

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-clamav-9036

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83615

File Name: suse_SU-2014-0414-1.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/20/2015

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2014

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