Summary
The remote host is missing an update to clamav
announced via advisory DSA 1771-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201771-1
Insight
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the ClamAV anti-virus toolkit:
CVE-2008-6680
Attackers can cayse a denial of service (crash) via a crafted EXE file that triggers a divide-by-zero error.
CVE-2009-1270
Attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted tar file that causes (1) clamd and (2) clamscan to hang.
(no CVE Id yet)
Attackers can cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted EXE file that crashes the UPack unpacker.
For the old stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 0.90.1dfsg-4etch19.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 0.94.dfsg.2-1lenny2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.95.1+dfsg-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your clamav packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-6680, CVE-2009-1270 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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