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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61877
Category:FreeBSD Local Security Checks
Title:FreeBSD Ports: clamav
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to the system; as announced in the referenced advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to the system
as announced in the referenced advisory.

Vulnerability 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.

Solution:
Update your system with the appropriate patches or
software upgrades.

CVSS Score:
9.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5050
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
BugTraq ID: 32207
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32207
Bugtraq: 20081108 ClamAV get_unicode_name() off-by-one buffer overflow (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498169/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1680 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1680
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00332.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00348.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-November/065530.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-21.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:229
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021159
http://secunia.com/advisories/32663
http://secunia.com/advisories/32699
http://secunia.com/advisories/32765
http://secunia.com/advisories/32872
http://secunia.com/advisories/33016
http://secunia.com/advisories/33317
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4579
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2008:026 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-672-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3085
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422
XForce ISS Database: clamav-getunicodename-bo(46462)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46462
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