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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2015-0551
2015-01-30 14:59:35
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Name : clamav
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 0.98.6
Release : 1.el7
URL :
http://www.clamav.net
Summary : End-user tools for the Clam Antivirus scanner
Description :
Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this
software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The
package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command
line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs
are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package,
which you can use with your own software. The virus database is based on
the virus database from OpenAntiVirus, but contains additional signatures
(including signatures for popular polymorphic viruses, too) and is KEPT UP
TO DATE.
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Update Information:
ClamAV 0.98.6
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ClamAV 0.98.6 is a bug fix release correcting the following:
* library shared object revisions.
* installation issues on some Mac OS X and FreeBSD platforms.
* includes a patch from Sebastian Andrzej Siewior making ClamAV pid files compatible
with systemd.
* Fix a heap out of bounds condition with crafted Yoda's crypter files. This issue
was discovered by Felix Groebert of the Google Security Team.
* Fix a heap out of bounds condition with crafted mew packer files. This issue was
discovered by Felix Groebert of the Google Security Team.
* Fix a heap out of bounds condition with crafted upx packer files. This issue was
discovered by Kevin Szkudlapski of Quarkslab.
* Fix a heap out of bounds condition with crafted upack packer files. This issue was
discovered by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior. CVE-2014-9328.
* Compensate a crash due to incorrect compiler optimization when handling crafted petite
packer files. This issue was discovered by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1187050 - CVE-2014-9328 clamav: heap out of bounds condition with crafted
upack packer files
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187050
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update clamav' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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