Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1680-1] New clamav packages fix potential code execution
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:26:17AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Moritz Jodeit discovered that ClamAV, an anti-virus solution, suffers
> from an off-by-one-error in its VBA project file processing, leading to
> a heap-based buffer overflow and potentially arbitrary code execution
> (CVE-2008-5050).
>
> Ilja van Sprundel discovered that ClamAV contains a denial of service
> condition in its JPEG file processing because it does not limit the
> recursion depth when processing JPEG thumbnails (CVE-2008-5314).
>
> For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
> version 0.90.1dfsg-4etch16.
>
> For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
> version 0.94.dfsg.2-1.
This looks like quite a serious bug (remote arbitrary code execution).
Are there any plans for an update to volatile?
Thanks,
Dominic.
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