Debian Security Advisory
DSA-776-1 clamav -- integer overflows, infinite loop
- Date Reported:
- 16 Aug 2005
- Affected Packages:
- clamav
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 14359.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2450. - More information:
-
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:
- CAN-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 infinite loop that could cause a denial of service.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected as it doesn't contain clamav.
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.
- CAN-2005-2450
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.2.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-base_0.84-2.sarge.2_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-docs_0.84-2.sarge.2_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-testfiles_0.84-2.sarge.2_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-docs_0.84-2.sarge.2_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.