USN-672-1: ClamAV vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 8.10

Packages

• clamav -

Details

Moritz Jodeit discovered that ClamAV did not correctly handle certain
strings when examining a VBA project. If a remote attacker tricked ClamAV
into processing a malicious VBA file, ClamAV would crash, leading to a
denial of service.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.10

• libclamav5 - 0.94.dfsg.1-1ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2008-5050