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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-6338 (clamav)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: clamav-0.93.3-1.fc9
Date:  Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:15:45 +0000
Message-ID:  <200807171415.m6HEFjaZ008920@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-6338 2008-07-17 03:10:35 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : clamav Product : Fedora 9 Version : 0.93.3 Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://www.clamav.net Summary : End-user tools for the Clam Antivirus scanner Description : Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use with your own software. The virus database is based on the virus database from OpenAntiVirus, but contains additional signatures (including signatures for popular polymorphic viruses, too) and is KEPT UP TO DATE. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to upstream version 0.93.3, fixing previously incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2713. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Sun Jul 13 2008 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.93.3-1 - updated to 0.93.3; another fix for CVE-2008-2713 (out-of-bounds read on petite files) - put pid instead of pgrp into pidfile of clamav-milter (bz #452359) * Tue Jun 17 2008 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.93.1-1 - updated to 0.93.1 - rediffed -path patch - CVE-2008-2713 Invalid Memory Access Denial Of Service Vulnerability * Mon Apr 14 2008 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.93-1 - updated to final 0.93 - removed daily.inc + main.inc directories; they are now replaced by *.cld containers - trimmed down MAILTO list of cronjob to 'root' again; every well configured system has an alias for this recipient -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #455373 - clamav: DoS / crash via crafted petite file (incomplete fix of CVE-2008-2713) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455373 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update clamav' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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