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clamav: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):clamav CVE #(s):CVE-2008-1387 CVE-2008-1833 CVE-2008-1835 CVE-2008-1836 CVE-2008-1837
Created:April 18, 2008 Updated:July 17, 2008
Description: From the CVE entries:

ClamAV before 0.93 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ARJ archive, as demonstrated by the PROTOS GENOME test suite for Archive Formats. (CVE-2008-1387)

Heap-based buffer overflow in libclamav in ClamAV 0.92.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted WWPack compressed PE binary. (CVE-2008-1833)

ClamAV before 0.93 allows remote attackers to bypass the scanning enging via a RAR file with an invalid version number, which cannot be parsed by ClamAV but can be extracted by Winrar. (CVE-2008-1835)

The rfc2231 function in message.c in libclamav in ClamAV before 0.93 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted message that produces a string that is not null terminated, which triggers a buffer over-read. (CVE-2008-1836)

libclamunrar in ClamAV before 0.93 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted RAR files that trigger "memory problems," as demonstrated by the PROTOS GENOME test suite for Archive Formats. (CVE-2008-1837)

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2008-6422 2008-07-17
Gentoo 200805-19 2008-05-20
Fedora FEDORA-2008-3900 2008-05-14
Fedora FEDORA-2008-3358 2008-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2008-3420 2008-04-29
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:024 2008-04-24
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:088 2007-04-17

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