[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#568262: Segmentation fault in libclamav/matcher.c:cli_checkfp

[Michael Tautschnig]

tags 568262 + upstream
forwarded 568262 https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1817
thanks

> Package: clamav-daemon
> Version: 0.95.3+dfsg-1~volatile1
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> 
> Hi,
> 
> after upgrading to version 0.95.3+dfsg-1~volatile1 of the clamav
> packages we encountered numerous crashes in clamd. The crashes appeared
> about two days after upgrading but only on systems that had the new
> version installed. I believe the combination of the new version and a
> new / newly detected virus triggered a previously present but hardly
> used code-path. The problem is very likely caused by an uninitialized
> char-pointer.
> 

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Thank you very much for this detailed bugreport and the suspected patch. I've
forwarded this upstream and I guess it will be fixed in the next release.

Best,
Michael

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