[Pkg-clamav-devel] ClamAV. again

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Sun Oct 26 11:34:00 UTC 2008


* Stephen Gran:

>> Are the vulnerabilities really exploitable to cause permanent damages?
>> The patches suggest they are very minor.
>
> I don't think permanent damage, no.  The null pointer dereferences will
> crash clamd, so it's a DoS.  The others will slowly leak over time
> (particularly on html mail) until they create a DoS.  I don't believe
> there are any code execution possibilities this time around.

Ah, I missed the clamd angle.

Anyway, we still need a mipsel build.  The problem is that it somehow
got lost.  It's not in the embargoed queue, and it's no longer on the
buildd either, it seems. 8-( I think this can be built manually after
the DSA, so I'm going to release anyway.



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