[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 5 Update: clamav-0.97.5-1.el5
updates at fedoraproject.org
updates at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jul 11 01:32:51 UTC 2012
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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2012-6298
2012-07-03 18:57:42
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Name : clamav
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 0.97.5
Release : 1.el5
URL : http://www.clamav.net/
Summary : Anti-virus software
Description :
Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of
this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning).
The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a
command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet.
The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam
AntiVirus package, which you can use with your own software. Most
importantly, the virus database is kept up to date
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Update Information:
- Upgrade to 0.97.5
- Fix CVE-2012-1419 clamav: specially-crafted POSIX tar files evade detection
- Fix CVE-2012-1457 clamav: overly long length field in tar files evade detection
- Fix CVE-2012-1443 clamav: specially-crafted RAR files evade detection
- Fix CVE-2012-1458 clamav: specially-crafted CHM files evade detection
- Fix CVE-2012-1459 clamav: specially-crafted length field in tar files evade detection
- Ship local copy of virus database; it was removed by accident from 0.97.5 tarball
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #806092 - CVE-2012-1419 clamav: specially-crafted POSIX tar files evade detection
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806092
[ 2 ] Bug #806094 - CVE-2012-1457 clamav: overly long length field in tar files evade detection
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806094
[ 3 ] Bug #806097 - CVE-2012-1443 clamav: specially-crafted RAR files evade detection
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806097
[ 4 ] Bug #806100 - CVE-2012-1458 clamav: specially-crafted CHM files evade detection
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806100
[ 5 ] Bug #806101 - CVE-2012-1459 clamav: specially-crafted length field in tar files evade detection
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806101
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update clamav' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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