USN-3592-1: ClamAV vulnerabilities

USN-3592-1: ClamAV vulnerabilities

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 PDF
files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-0202)

Hanno Böck discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing certain XAR
files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-1000085)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.10

clamav – 0.99.4+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.17.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

clamav – 0.99.4+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

clamav – 0.99.4+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2018-0202
• CVE-2018-1000085

Source: USN-3592-1: ClamAV vulnerabilities