[Pkg-clamav-devel] unzoo as recommends

Scott Kitterman debian at kitterman.com
Wed Sep 3 10:19:25 UTC 2008


Currently (as of 0.93.3) we have unzoo in recommends.  I think that's 
excessive as zoo archives are at best rare.  

Additionally, with recommends installed by default, I don't think that unzoo 
is in such a state that we want to inflict it on users by default.  Martin 
Pitt (pitti) just did a review of it in Ubuntu for one of our internal 
processes and concluded:

"The source code only declares statically sized buffers and makes *no* attempt 
on bounds checking. I. e. it is not hard to create fuzzified zoo archives 
which create exploitable stack overflows, etc. Also, upstream hasn't updated 
the program in 6 years. I guess the fact that .zoo archives aren't popular 
contributes to the fact of being dead upstream and not being examined by 
security analysts."

The discussion was in Ubuntu bug 261938 on the off chance anyone is deeply 
interested:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/261938

I think this is clear cut enough I'd do it in the repo myself if my Git foo 
were better and I didn't know that an upload was imminent.

Scott K



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