Summary
The remote host is missing an update to clamav
announced via advisory DSA 776-1.
Several bugs were discovered in Clam AntiVirus, the antivirus scanner for Unix, designed for integration with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. The following problems were identified:
CVE-2005-2450
Neel Mehta and Alex Wheeler discovered that Clam AntiVirus is vulnerable to integer overflows when handling the TNEF, CHM and FSG file formats.
CVE-NOMATCH
Mark Pizzolato fixed a possible infinete loop that could cause a denial of service.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected as it doesn't contain clamav.
Solution
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.86.2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your clamav package.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20776-1
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-2450 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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