| Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing an update to clamav
announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-5476.
Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this
software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The
package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command
line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs
are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package,
which you can use with your own software. The virus database is based on
the virus database from OpenAntiVirus, but contains additional signatures
(including signatures for popular polymorphic viruses, too) and is KEPT UP
TO DATE.
Update Information:
CVE-2008-2713
ChangeLog:
* Tue Jun 17 2008 Enrico Scholz - 0.93.1-1
- updated to 0.93.1
- rediffed -path patch
- CVE-2008-2713 Invalid Memory Access Denial Of Service Vulnerability
References:
[ 1 ] Bug #451761 - CVE-2008-2713 clamav: DoS / crash via crafted petite file
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451761
Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.
This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update clamav' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-5476
Risk factor : Medium
CVSS Score:
5.0
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