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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2014-4176
2014-11-20 09:51:11
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Name : clamav
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 0.98.5
Release : 1.el6
URL :
http://www.clamav.net/
Summary : Anti-virus software
Description :
Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of
this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning).
The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a
command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet.
The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam
AntiVirus package, which you can use with your own software. Most
importantly, the virus database is kept up to date
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Update Information:
ClamAV 0.98.5
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ClamAV 0.98.5 also includes these new features and bug fixes:
* Support for the XDP file format and extracting, decoding, and scanning PDF files
within XDP files. Addition of shared library support for LLVM versions 3.1 - 3.5 for the
purpose of just-in-time(JIT) compilation of ClamAV bytecode signatures. Andreas Cadhalpun
submitted the patch implementing this support.
* Enhancements to the clambc command line utility to assist ClamAV bytecode signature
authors by providing introspection into compiled bytecode programs.
* Resolution of many of the warning messages from ClamAV compilation.
* Improved detection of malicious PE files.
* Security fix for ClamAV crash when using 'clamscan -a'. This issue was
identified by Kurt Siefried of Red Hat.
* Security fix for ClamAV crash when scanning maliciously crafted yoda's crypter
files. This issue, as well as several other bugs fixed in this release, were identified by
Damien Millescamp of Oppida.
* ClamAV 0.98.5 now works with OpenSSL in FIPS compliant mode. Thanks to Reinhard Max
for supplying the patch.
* Bug fixes and other feature enhancements.
Please see the ChangeLog file or GIT log for further details.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1138101 - CVE-2013-6497 ClamAV: -a segmentation fault when processing files
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1138101
[ 2 ] Bug #1167139 - CVE-2014-9050 clamav: heap-based buffer overflow when scanning
crypted PE files
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167139
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update clamav' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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