Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1232-1 clamav -- missing sanity checks

Date Reported:
09 Dec 2006
Affected Packages:
clamav
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-5874.
More information:

Stephen Gran discovered that malformed base64-encoded MIME attachments can lead to denial of service through a null pointer dereference.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.84-2.sarge.12.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.86-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.86-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your clamav package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.12.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.12.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.12_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-docs_0.84-2.sarge.12_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-testfiles_0.84-2.sarge.12_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.12_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.12_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.12_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.12_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.12_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.12_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.12_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.12_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.12_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.12_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.12_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.12_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.12_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.12_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.12_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.12_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.12_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.12_arm.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.12_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.12_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.12_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.12_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.12_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.12_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.12_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.12_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.12_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.12_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.12_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.12_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.12_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.12_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.12_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.12_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.12_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.12_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.12_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.12_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.12_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.12_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.12_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.12_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.12_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.12_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.12_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.12_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.12_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.12_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.12_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.12_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.12_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.12_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.12_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.12_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.12_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.12_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.12_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.12_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.12_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.12_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.12_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.12_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.12_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.12_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.12_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.12_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav_0.84-2.sarge.12_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.84-2.sarge.12_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.84-2.sarge.12_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/clamav-milter_0.84-2.sarge.12_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav-dev_0.84-2.sarge.12_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/clamav/libclamav1_0.84-2.sarge.12_sparc.deb

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