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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1105-1 clamav -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

22 Sep 2017

Affected Packages:

clamav

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-6418, CVE-2017-6420.

More information:

clamav is vulnerable to multiple issues that can lead to denial of service when processing untrusted content.

• CVE-2017-6418

  out-of-bounds read in libclamav/message.c, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted e-mail message.

• CVE-2017-6420

  use-after-free in the wwunpack function (libclamav/wwunpack.c), allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PE file with WWPack compression.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 0.99.2+dfsg-0+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your clamav packages.

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