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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.62909
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2008:239 (clamav)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to clamav
announced via advisory MDVSA-2008:239.

Ilja van Sprundel found that ClamAV contained a denial of service
vulnerability in how it handled processing JPEG files, due to it
not limiting the recursion depth when processing JPEG thumbnails
(CVE-2008-5314).

Other bugs have also been corrected in 0.94.2 which is being provided
with this update.

Affected: 2008.0, 2008.1, 2009.0, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2008:239

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
4.3

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5314
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
BugTraq ID: 32555
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32555
Debian Security Information: DSA-1680 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1680
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7330
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-21.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:239
http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20081126.150241.55b1e092.en.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/01/8
http://osvdb.org/50363
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021296
http://secunia.com/advisories/32926
http://secunia.com/advisories/32936
http://secunia.com/advisories/33016
http://secunia.com/advisories/33195
http://secunia.com/advisories/33317
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2008:028 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00003.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-684-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3311
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422
XForce ISS Database: clamav-special-dos(46985)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46985
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