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USN-3550-1: ClamAV vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3550-1 30th January, 2018 clamav vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.10 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 mailmessages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash,resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.(CVE-2017-12374, CVE-2017-12375, CVE-2017-12379, CVE-2017-12380) It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing certain PDFfiles. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash,resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.(CVE-2017-12376) It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing certain mewpacket files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV tocrash, resulting in a [ more… ]