Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1050-1 clamav -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 02 May 2006
- Affected Packages:
- clamav
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 17754.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-1989. - More information:
-
Ulf Härnhammar and an anonymous researcher from Germany discovered a vulnerability in the protocol code of freshclam, a command line utility responsible for downloading and installing virus signature updates for ClamAV, the antivirus scanner for Unix. This could lead to a denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain clamav packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.9.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.88.2-1.
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.9.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.9.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.9.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-base_0.84-2.sarge.9_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-docs_0.84-2.sarge.9_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-testfiles_0.84-2.sarge.9_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-docs_0.84-2.sarge.9_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.9_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.9_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.9_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.9_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.9_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.9_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.9_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.9_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.9_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.9_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.9_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.9_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.9_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.9_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.9_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.9_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.9_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.9_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.9_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.9_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.9_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.9_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.9_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.9_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.9_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.9_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.9_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.9_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.9_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.9_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.9_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.9_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.9_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.9_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.9_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.9_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.9_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.9_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.9_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.9_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.9_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.9_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.9_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.9_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.9_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.9_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.9_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.9_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.9_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.9_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.9_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.9_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.9_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.9_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.9_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.9_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.9_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.9_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.9_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.9_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.9_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.