Package: clamav
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Hi,

The following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) ids were
published for clamav.

CVE-2008-5525[0]:
| ClamAV 0.94.1 and possibly 0.93.1, when Internet Explorer 6 or 7 is
| used, allows remote attackers to bypass detection of malware in an
| HTML document by placing an MZ header (aka "EXE info") at the
| beginning, and modifying the filename to have (1) no extension, (2) a
| .txt extension, or (3) a .jpg extension, as demonstrated by a document
| containing a CVE-2006-5745 exploit.

Please coordinate with the security team (t...@security.debian.org) to
prepare packages for the stable releases.

If you fix the vulnerabilities please also make sure to include the
CVE ids in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5525
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-5525



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