Security update for clamav

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:0188-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12

An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has five security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

Clamav was updated to version 0.98.5:

  • 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.

  • 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 (bnc#906770, CVE-2014-9050)
  • Security fix for ClamAV crash when using 'clamscan -a'.
  • Security fix for ClamAV crash when scanning maliciously crafted yoda's crypter files (bnc#906077, CVE-2013-6497).
  • ClamAV 0.98.5 now works with OpenSSL in FIPS compliant mode (bnc#904207).

  • Fix server socket setup code in clamd (bnc#903489).

  • Change updateclamconf to prefer the state of the old config file even for commented-out options (bnc#903719) (bnc#908731).

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-49=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-49=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-49=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 (x86_64)
    • clamav-debuginfo-0.98.5-6.1
    • clamav-debugsource-0.98.5-6.1
    • clamav-0.98.5-6.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • clamav-debuginfo-0.98.5-6.1
    • clamav-debugsource-0.98.5-6.1
    • clamav-0.98.5-6.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 (x86_64)
    • clamav-debuginfo-0.98.5-6.1
    • clamav-debugsource-0.98.5-6.1
    • clamav-0.98.5-6.1

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