USN-3814-3: ClamAV vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• clamav - Anti-virus utility for Unix

Details

Updated: 2018-11-21: The embedded version of libmspack in ClamAV was
found to not be affected by the listed vulnerabilities, therefore the
following is not applicable.

USN-3814-2 fixed several vulnerabilities in clamav. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered ClamAV incorrectly handled certain malformed CAB files.
A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting
in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-18584, CVE-2018-18585)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04

• clamav - 0.100.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.2

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

References

• CVE-2018-18584
• CVE-2018-18585

Related notices

• USN-3814-1: libmspack-doc, libmspack-dev, libmspack0, libmspack
• USN-3814-2: clamav-daemon, clamav-docs, clamav, clamav-base, clamav-freshclam, libclamav-dev, clamav-testfiles, libclamav7, clamav-milter