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clamav: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):clamav CVE #(s):CVE-2008-0318
Created:February 13, 2008 Updated:April 18, 2008
Description:

From the CVE:

Integer overflow in libclamav in ClamAV before 0.92.1, as used in clamd, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Petite packed PE file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1608 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1625 2008-02-13
Debian DSA-1497-1 2008-02-16
Gentoo 200802-09 2008-02-21
SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:004 2008-02-22
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:088 2007-04-17

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clamav: arbitrary code execution

Posted Feb 16, 2008 20:44 UTC (Sat) by kitterma (subscriber, #4448) [Link]

FYI, the Ubuntu packages are all updated for these issues too, but don't get Ubuntu Security
Notices (USN) because they aren't in the Main Ubuntu repository.

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