[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bugfix for #507624 prepared

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Wed Dec 3 11:39:59 UTC 2008


* Michael Tautschnig:

>> * Michael Tautschnig:
>> 
>> > The attached patch provides a fix for etch-security. It does,
>> > however, not include the previously sent patch for #505134. We could
>> > upload a package containing both bugfixes at any time. If you prefer
>> > to only include one of those, this is also prepared easily.
>> 
>> Does the package in etch still work with current signature databases?
>> (I've recently seen a report to the contrary.)
>> 
>
> I don't think that there are any incompatibilities introduced in post-etch
> versions, even though the version in etch may be unable to make use of all of
> the features in current signature databases. 

I've just checked, and freshclam runs just fine (for some values of
"fine", of course, given that some signatures are ignored).  Looks
like the report was wrong.  Sorry for the noise.

Your patch looks fine.  Is there a CVE yet?



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