DSA-1238-1 clamav -- several vulnerabilities

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2006-6406   CVE-2006-6481  

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Clam anti-virus toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2006-6406 Hendrik Weimer discovered that invalid characters in base64 encoded data may lead to bypass of scanning mechanisms. CVE-2006-6481 Hendrik Weimer discovered that deeply nested multipart/mime MIME data may lead to denial of service. For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.13. For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 0.88.7-1. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.88.7-1. We recommend that you upgrade your clamav packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1238-1 clamav -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
17 Dec 2006
Affected Packages:
clamav
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-6406, CVE-2006-6481.
More information:

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Clam anti-virus toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CVE-2006-6406

    Hendrik Weimer discovered that invalid characters in base64 encoded data may lead to bypass of scanning mechanisms.

  • CVE-2006-6481

    Hendrik Weimer discovered that deeply nested multipart/mime MIME data may lead to denial of service.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.13.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 0.88.7-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.88.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your clamav packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.13.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.13.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-base_0.84-2.sarge.13_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-docs_0.84-2.sarge.13_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-testfiles_0.84-2.sarge.13_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.13_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.13_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.13_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.13_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.13_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.13_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.13_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.13_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.13_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.13_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.13_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.13_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.13_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.13_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.13_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.13_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.13_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.13_arm.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.13_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.13_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.13_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.13_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.13_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.13_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.13_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.13_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.13_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.13_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.13_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.13_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.13_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.13_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.13_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.13_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.13_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.13_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.13_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.13_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.13_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.13_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.13_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.13_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.13_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.13_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.13_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.13_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.13_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.13_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.13_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.13_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.13_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.13_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.13_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.13_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.13_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.13_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.13_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.13_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.13_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.13_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.13_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.13_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.13_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.13_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.13_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.13_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.13_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.13_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.13_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.13_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.13_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.13_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.