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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3393-1

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3393-1
Posted Aug 17, 2017
Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 3393-1 - It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing certain e-mail messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service. It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled certain malformed CHM files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. In the default installation, attackers would be isolated by the ClamAV AppArmor profile. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, remote, denial of service, arbitrary
systems | linux, ubuntu
advisories | CVE-2017-6418, CVE-2017-6419, CVE-2017-6420
SHA-256 | 5a8a590d5c4661efe2ab9a585a3bdb49af512e3663523c10454e99d28c3b6218

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3393-1

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3393-1
August 17, 2017

clamav vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 17.04
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in ClamAV.

Software Description:
- clamav: Anti-virus utility for Unix

Details:

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing certain e-mail
messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV
to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6418)

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled certain malformed CHM
files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. In the default installation,
attackers would be isolated by the ClamAV AppArmor profile. (CVE-2017-6419)

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing certain PE files
with WWPack compression. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6420)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 17.04:
clamav 0.99.2+dfsg-6ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
clamav 0.99.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
clamav 0.99.2+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3393-1
CVE-2017-6418, CVE-2017-6419, CVE-2017-6420

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/0.99.2+dfsg-6ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/0.99.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/0.99.2+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.2


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