Auto-updater for the Clam Antivirus scanner data-files
This package contains programs which can be used to update the clamav
anti-virus database automatically. It uses the freshclam(1) utility for
this task. To activate it, uncomment the entry in /etc/cron.d/clamav-update.
- updated to 0.97.5
- CVE-2012-1457: allows to bypass malware detection via a TAR archive
entry with a length field that exceeds the total TAR file size
- CVE-2012-1458: allows to bypass malware detection via a crafted
reset interval in the LZXC header of a CHM file
- CVE-2012-1459: allows to bypass malware detection via a TAR archive
entry with a length field corresponding to that entire entry, plus
part of the header of the next entry
- ship local copy of virus database; it was removed by accident from
0.97.5 tarball