[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 5 Update: clamav-0.97.2-3.el5

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-3979
2011-07-30 10:05:02
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Name        : clamav
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 0.97.2
Release     : 3.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:

updated to upstream 0.97.2
Build-require xz
CVE-2011-2721 Off-by-one error by scanning message hashes (#725694)

The clamd-wrapper script such as is in use with amavisd-new now uses the PidFile configured in the service specific configuration file.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #725695 - Clam AntiVirus: Off-by-one error by scanning message hashes [epel-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725695
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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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