USN-3550-2: ClamAV vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3550-2

5th February, 2018

clamav vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in ClamAV.

Software description

• clamav
  - Anti-virus utility for Unix
  
  

Details

USN-3550-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in ClamAV. This update
provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing certain mail
messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
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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.
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It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing certain TAR
files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (

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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

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CVE-2017-12380