USN-4146-1: ClamAV vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• clamav - Anti-virus utility for Unix

Details

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled unpacking ZIP files. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-12625)

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled unpacking bzip2 files. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in
a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-12900)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.04

• clamav - 0.101.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.19.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04

• clamav - 0.101.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• clamav - 0.101.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References

• CVE-2019-12625
• CVE-2019-12900

Related notices

• USN-4146-2: clamav-daemon, clamav-testfiles, clamav-base, libclamav9, clamav, libclamav-dev, clamav-freshclam, clamav-milter, clamav-docs
• USN-4038-1: bzip2, libbz2-dev, libbz2-1.0, bzip2-doc
• USN-4038-2: lib64bz2-1.0, lib32bz2-1.0, libbz2-1.0, lib64bz2-dev, bzip2, bzip2-doc, libbz2-dev, lib32bz2-dev