Technical Description

Gentoo has released updated packages to address a vulnerability identified in ClamAV. This flaw could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into downloading virus signature updates from a specially crafted web server. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2006-1586

Affected Products

app-antivirus/clamav versions prior to 0.88.2

Solution

Upgrade the affected package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=app-antivirus/clamav-0.88.2"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1623
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/11156

ChangeLog

2006-05-03 : Initial release

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