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USN-4146-1: ClamAV vulnerabilities

2 October 2019

Several security issues were fixed in ClamAV.

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Releases

Packages

  • clamav - Anti-virus utility for Unix

Details

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled unpacking ZIP files. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-12625)

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled unpacking bzip2 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-2019-12900)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

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

Related notices

  • USN-4146-2: clamav-milter, libclamav-dev, clamav-freshclam, clamav-daemon, clamav-testfiles, clamav-base, clamav-docs, libclamav9, clamav
  • USN-4038-1: bzip2-doc, libbz2-dev, libbz2-1.0, bzip2
  • USN-4038-2: lib64bz2-1.0, lib64bz2-dev, libbz2-1.0, lib32bz2-1.0, bzip2-doc, lib32bz2-dev, bzip2, libbz2-dev