clamav - denial of service

Damian Put discovered a vulnerability in the ClamAV anti-virus
toolkit’s parsing of Petite-packed Win32 executables. The weakness
leads to an invalid memory access, and could enable an attacker to
crash clamav by supplying a maliciously crafted Petite-compressed
binary for scanning. In some configurations, such as when clamav
is used in combination with mail servers, this could cause a system
to fail open, facilitating a follow-on viral attack.

A previous version of this advisory referenced packages that were
built incorrectly and omitted the intended correction. This
issue was fixed in packages referenced by the -2 revision of the
advisory.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies this
weakness as CVE-2008-2713
and CVE-2008-3215.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.90.1dfsg-3.1+etch14.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.93.1.dfsg-1.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your clamav packages.