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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1953-1 clamav -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

10 Oct 2019

Affected Packages:

clamav

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 34359.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-12625, CVE-2019-12900.

More information:

It was discovered that clamav, the open source antivirus engine, is affected by the following security vulnerabilities:

• CVE-2019-12625

  Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability, resulting from excessively long scan times caused by non-recursive zip bombs. Among others, this issue was mitigated by introducing a scan time limit.

• CVE-2019-12900

  Out-of-bounds write in ClamAV's NSIS bzip2 library when attempting decompression in cases where the number of selectors exceeded the max limit set by the library.

  This update triggers a transition from libclamav7 to libclamav9. As a result, several other packages will be recompiled against the fixed package after the release of this update: dansguardian, havp, python-pyclamav, c-icap-modules.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 0.101.4+dfsg-0+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your clamav packages.

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