USN-1773-1: ClamAV vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• clamav - Anti-virus utility for Unix

Details

Felix Groebert, Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered multiple
security issues with ClamAV. An attacker could use these issues to cause
ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10

• libclamav6 - 0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.10.1
• clamav - 0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.10.1
• clamav-daemon - 0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• libclamav6 - 0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.1
• clamav - 0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.1
• clamav-daemon - 0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10

• libclamav6 - 0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.11.10.1
• clamav - 0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.11.10.1
• clamav-daemon - 0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04

• libclamav6 - 0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.10.04.1
• clamav - 0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.10.04.1
• clamav-daemon - 0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.10.04.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1157385