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ClamAV users - if you are running < 0.95 it will be disabled next week

http://lurker.clamav.net/message/201...7c287b.en.html

Quote:

Dear ClamAV users,

this is a reminder that starting from 15 April 2010 our CVD will contain
a special signature which disables all clamd installations older than
0.95 - that is to say older than 1 year.

We would like to keep on supporting all old versions of our engine, but
unfortunately this is no longer possible without causing a disservice to
people running a recent release of ClamAV.

For more information please refer to the original announcement:

http://lists.clamav.net/lurker/messa...7bbd20.en.html

Regards,

HTH anyone who is using an older engine to avoid the carnage of not updating next week :-)

Just adding to that - there is a S/A out on Clam for Ubuntu users:

Quote:

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-926-1 April 08, 2010
clamav vulnerabilities
CVE-2010-0098
===========================================================

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu 9.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.10:
libclamav6 0.95.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.04~intrepid3

Ubuntu 9.04:
libclamav6 0.95.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.04.1

Ubuntu 9.10:
libclamav6 0.95.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.10.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

Details follow:

It was discovered that ClamAV did not properly verify its input when
processing CAB files. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted
CAB file to evade malware detection. (CVE-2010-0098)

It was discovered that ClamAV did not properly verify its input when
processing CAB files. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted
CAB file and cause a denial of service via application crash.

Thanks, I'll sticky this for a while to help get the word out.

Well, EOL should have been reached by now, so I'm unstickying this.

This came as a nice nasty surprise today! I am not too angry at Clam, I am more upset at Debian for not moving 0.95 into the stable repository before this date!