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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.62985
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu USN-672-1 (clamav)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to clamav
announced via advisory USN-672-1.

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 8.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

Details follow:

Moritz Jodeit discovered that ClamAV did not correctly handle certain
strings when examining a VBA project. If a remote attacker tricked ClamAV
into processing a malicious VBA file, ClamAV would crash, leading to a
denial of service.

Solution:
The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.10:
libclamav5 0.94.dfsg.1-1ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-672-1

Risk factor : Critical

CVSS Score:
9.3

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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