-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2024-e8f7a74693 2024-09-14 01:57:36.689511 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : clamav Product : Fedora 40 Version : 1.0.7 Release : 1.fc40 URL : https://www.clamav.net/ Summary : End-user tools for the Clam Antivirus scanner Description : Clam AntiVirus is an 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. The virus database is based on the virus database from OpenAntiVirus, but contains additional signatures (including signatures for popular polymorphic viruses, too) and is KEPT UP TO DATE. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to 1.0.7 CVE-2024-20506: Changed the logging module to disable following symlinks on Linux and Unix systems so as to prevent an attacker with existing access to the 'clamd' or 'freshclam' services from using a symlink to corrupt system files. CVE-2024-20505: Fixed a possible out-of-bounds read bug in the PDF file parser that could cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Sep 5 2024 Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi@xxxxxxxxxx> - 1.0.7-1 - Update to 1.0.7 * Wed Jul 17 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - 1.0.6-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_41_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #2310067 - CVE-2024-20506 clamav: ClamD process writes to log file while privileged without checking if its been replaced with a symlink [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310067 [ 2 ] Bug #2310073 - CVE-2024-20505 clamav: out-of-bounds read bug in the PDF file parser [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310073 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-e8f7a74693' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
