Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1263-1 clamav -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
06 Mar 2007
Affected Packages:
clamav
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 411118.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-0897, CVE-2007-0898.
More information:

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Clam anti-virus toolkit, which may lead to denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CVE-2007-0897

    It was discovered that malformed CAB archives may exhaust file descriptors, which allows denial of service.

  • CVE-2007-0898

    It was discovered that a directory traversal vulnerability in the MIME header parser may lead to denial of service.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.15.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 0.88.7-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.90-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your clamav packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.15.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.15.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-base_0.84-2.sarge.15_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-docs_0.84-2.sarge.15_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-testfiles_0.84-2.sarge.15_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.15_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.15_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.15_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.15_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.15_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.15_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.15_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.15_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.15_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.15_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.15_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.15_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.15_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.15_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.15_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.15_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.15_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.15_arm.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.15_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.15_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.15_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.15_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.15_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.15_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.15_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.15_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.15_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.15_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.15_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.15_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.15_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.15_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.15_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.15_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.15_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.15_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.15_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.15_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.15_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.15_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.15_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.15_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.15_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.15_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.15_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.15_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.15_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.15_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.15_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.15_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.15_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.15_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.15_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.15_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.15_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.15_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.15_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.15_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.15_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.15_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.15_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.15_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.15_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.15_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.15_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.15_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.15_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.15_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.15_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.15_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.15_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.15_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.