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[VUA 3-1] Updated clamav packages fixes potential DoS



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Debian Volatile Update Announcement VUA 3-1      http://volatile.debian.net
debian-volatile@lists.debian.org                              Andreas Barth
July  6th, 2005
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Package              : clamav
Version              : 0.86.1-0volatile2
Importance           : high
CVE IDs              : CAN-2005-1922, CAN-2005-1923, CAN-2005-2056, CAN-2005-2070

The virus patterns available on clamav.net have started to use newer
patterns.  Older scanners will not recognize viruses described by
the newer patterns.

Additionally, some security flaws were found:
CAN-2005-1922: libclamav/scanners.c: fix potential remote DoS
CAN-2005-1923: libclamav/mspack/cabd.c: fix possible infinite loop
CAN-2005-2056: libclamav/mspack/qtmd.c: fix possible crash
CAN-2005-2070: potential DoS to the sendmail interface in clamav-milter
<unassigned> : libclamav/cvd.c: fix potential directory traversal in cvd
               unpacker
<unassigned> : libclamav/message.c: fix potential crash with more than one
               content-disposition type line

For sarge, an updated clamav package is available in sarge/volatile
as version 0.86.1-0volatile2.



Upgrade Instructions
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You can get the updated packages at

http://volatile.debian.net/debian-volatile/pool/volatile/main/c/clamav/
 
and install them with dpkg, or add

 deb http://volatile.debian.net/debian-volatile sarge/volatile main
 deb-src http://volatile.debian.net/debian-volatile sarge/volatile main

to your /etc/apt/sources.list. You can also use any of our mirrors.
Please see http://volatile.debian.net/mirrors.html for the full list
of mirrors.  The archive signing key can be downloaded from
http://volatile.debian.net/ziyi-2005.asc

For further information about debian-volatile, please refer to
http://volatile.debian.net/.

If there are any issues, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the
volatile team.
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