On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 08:47 +0100, corpus.defero wrote:
Appreciate that this is an SA list, but it tends to share a userbase
with ClamAV. Apologies if mentioned, but potentially these could mean
carnage to users of Clam who have not updated in a while:
http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20100407.141109.2a7c287b.en.html
Dear ClamAV users,
this is a reminder that starting from 15 April 2010 our CVD will contain
a special signature which disables all clamd installations older than
0.95 - that is to say older than 1 year.
We would like to keep on supporting all old versions of our engine, but
unfortunately this is no longer possible without causing a disservice to
people running a recent release of ClamAV.
For more information please refer to the original announcement:
http://lists.clamav.net/lurker/message/20091006.143601.d27bbd20.en.html
Hope that this spares someone some blushes next week :-)
To follow that up - another good reason to update (not sure if this is
just a Ubuntu issue or has implications in Debian + others)
===
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-926-1 April 08, 2010
clamav vulnerabilities
CVE-2010-0098
===
A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu 9.10
This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.
The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:
Ubuntu 8.10:
libclamav6 0.95.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.04~intrepid3
Ubuntu 9.04:
libclamav6 0.95.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.04.1
Ubuntu 9.10:
libclamav6 0.95.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.10.1
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.
Details follow:
It was discovered that ClamAV did not properly verify its input when
processing CAB files. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted
CAB file to evade malware detection. (CVE-2010-0098)
It was discovered that ClamAV did not properly verify its input when
processing CAB files. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted
CAB file and cause a denial of service via application crash.
Updated packages for Ubuntu 8.10:
Source archives:
