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fix: Allow clamd
to start normally when a whitelist is present.
#1309
fix: Allow clamd
to start normally when a whitelist is present.
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Thank you for working on a solution to this bug.
The same issue occurs when adding individual signature files outside of a CVD or CLD archive. E.g. if you drop in "clamav.hdb" file containing a hash-based signature, then clamd
loading will still fail with:
❯ ./install/sbin/clamd -F
LibClamAV Error: cli_cvdverify: Can't read CVD header
LibClamAV Error: cl_cvdgetage: cvdgetfileage() failed for /home/micah/workspace/clamav-micah-5/build/install/share/clamav/clamav.hdb
So rather than having cl_cvdgetage
ignore specific extensions like ".ign2
", it would be better to only verify for ".cvd
" and ".cld
".
Yeah, I'm not familiar with all of the extensions so the clarification is more than welcome. |
Hi @userwiths I thought of one other issue. If anyone tries to run clamscan where they pass in specific databases rather than using a database directory, it will still fail. E.g.: ❯ clamscan -d ~/clamav.hdb -d ~/.cvdupdate/database/bytecode.cvd --fail-if-cvd-older-than=5 /path/to/file
LibClamAV Error: cli_cvdverify: Can't read CVD header
ERROR: Broken or not a CVD file I think to fix this, we'll need to check if the database path ends with ".cvd" or ".cld" in this location: https://github.com/userwiths/clamav/blob/8474e6a86d45ba2b084bd7d3719947db90aa5543/clamscan/manager.c#L1253-L1254 What do you think? |
I think that you are correct. I noticed that In case you think it would be better to keep the behavior as it was, just say so and I will change it accordingly. |
I wasn't able to reproduce this, or else I don't fully understand what you mean. I believe it should fail if the Your PR seems good to me. I was doing some local testing after a rebase. I'm going to squash it down to one commit as well and then force-push that. |
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Clamscan and ClamD will throw an error if you use the '--fail-if-cvd-older-than=DAYS' / 'FailIfCvdOlderThan' option and try to load any plaintext signature files. That is, it throws an error when encountering plain signature files like `.ign2`, `.ldb`, `.hdb`, etc. This feature should only verify CVD / CLD files. The feature (and bug) was introduced in ClamAV 1.1.0, here: Cisco-Talos@e4fe665 With this change, the `cl_cvdgetage` checks will skip any file that is not a CVD or CLD. Fixes: Cisco-Talos#1174
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This PR is an attempt to fix issue #1174
The given functionality was introduced in the following commit and after taking a look at the cli_cvdverify function I believe it is meant to verify only CVDs.
That is, it throws an error when encountering a clear text (whitelist,
.ign
,.ign2
) file. I mimicked the way the allowed extensions in the Database folder were handled, and excluded the 2 clear text extensions mentioned above. This has locally allowed for the normal execution ofclamd
.