Tuesday, January 27, 2015

ClamAV 0.98.6 has been released!

ClamAV 0.98.6 is a bug fix release correcting the following:

  • library shared object revisions.
  • installation issues on some Mac OS X and FreeBSD platforms.
  • includes a patch from Sebastian Andrzej Siewior making ClamAV pid files compatible with systemd.
  • Fix a heap out of bounds condition with crafted Yoda's crypter files. This issue was discovered by Felix Groebert of the Google Security Team.
  • Fix a heap out of bounds condition with crafted mew packer files. This issue was discovered by Felix Groebert of the Google Security Team.
  • Fix a heap out of bounds condition with crafted upx packer files. This issue was discovered by Kevin Szkudlapski of Quarkslab.
  • Fix a heap out of bounds condition with crafted upack packer files. This issue was discovered by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior. CVE-2014-9328.
  • Compensate a crash due to incorrect compiler optimization when handling crafted petite packer files. This issue was discovered by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior.


Thanks to the following ClamAV community members for code submissions
and bug reporting included in ClamAV 0.98.6:

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Felix Groebert
Kevin Szkudlapski
Mark Pizzolato
Daniel J. Luke

Please download the latest release of ClamAV from 0.98.6 from our download page.