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Old 11-17-2008
USN-672-1: ClamAV vulnerability
Referenced CVEs:
CVE-2008-5050


Description:
===========================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-672-1 November 17, 2008clamav vulnerabilityCVE-2008-5050===========================================================A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:Ubuntu 8.10This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions ofKubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to thefollowing package versions:Ubuntu 8.10: libclamav5 0.94.dfsg.1-1ubuntu0.1In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect thenecessary changes.Details follow:Moritz Jodeit discovered that ClamAV did not correctly handle certainstrings when examining a VBA project. If a remote attacker tricked ClamAVinto processing a malicious VBA file, ClamAV would crash, leading to adenial of service.





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clamav-milter

clamav-milter(8)						  Clam AntiVirus						  clamav-milter(8)

NAME

       clamav-milter - milter compatible mail scanner

SYNOPSIS

       clamav-milter [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Clamav-milter is a filter for sendmail(1) mail server.  It uses a mail scanning engine built into clamd(8).

       Clamav-milter  can  use load balancing and fault tolerant techniques to connect to more than one clamd(8) server and seamlessly hot-swap to
       even the load between different machines and to keep scanning for viruses even when a server goes down.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Output help information and exit.

       -V, --version
	      Print the version number and exit.

       -c FILE, --config-file=FILE
	      Read configuration from FILE.

FILES

       /etc/clamav/clamav-milter.conf

AUTHOR

       aCaB <acab@clamav.net>

SEE ALSO

       sendmail(8), clamav-milter.conf(5), clamd(8), clamd.conf(5)

ClamAV 0.98.4							   Feb 25, 2009 						  clamav-milter(8)