Debian Security Advisory
DLA-2108-1 clamav -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 18 Feb 2020
- Affected Packages:
- clamav
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 945265.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-15961. - More information:
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It was found that ClamAV, an antivirus software, was susceptible to a denial of service attack by unauthenticated users via inefficient MIME parsing of especially crafted email files.
For Debian 8
Jessie
, this problem has been fixed in version 0.101.5+dfsg-0+deb8u1.We recommend that you upgrade your clamav packages.
Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS