Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades.
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498169/30/0/threaded http://svn.clamav.net/svn/clamav-devel/trunk/ChangeLog http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/24b64fb0-af1d-11dd-8a16-001b1116b350.html
Insight
The following packages are affected:
clamav
clamav-devel
CVE-2008-5050
Off-by-one error in the get_unicode_name function
(libclamav/vba_extract.c) in Clam Anti-Virus (ClamAV) before 0.94.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VBA project file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-5050 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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