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fix: Allow clamd to start normally when a whitelist is present. #1309

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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 of clamd.

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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".

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Yeah, I'm not familiar with all of the extensions so the clarification is more than welcome.
As discussed now the cl_cvdgetage checks only CVD and CLD files.

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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?

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I think that you are correct.
Despite that, I saw a specific scenario for which I took a decision that might be worth a notice.

I noticed that clamscan proceeds without a notice even if a file/directory passed with -d does not exist.
Don't know if that is intentional or not, my current changes exit with an error and log on the screen a message with the path to the missing file.

In case you think it would be better to keep the behavior as it was, just say so and I will change it accordingly.

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I noticed that clamscan proceeds without a notice even if a file/directory passed with -d does not exist.

I wasn't able to reproduce this, or else I don't fully understand what you mean. I believe it should fail if the -d file or directory does not exist. So I'm good with your change either way.

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.

@micahsnyder micahsnyder force-pushed the issue-1174-FailIfCvdOlderThan-error-on-whitelist branch from ca96f27 to 2c7860f Compare July 23, 2024 17:46
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
@micahsnyder micahsnyder force-pushed the issue-1174-FailIfCvdOlderThan-error-on-whitelist branch from 2c7860f to 9a7b186 Compare July 23, 2024 20:01
@micahsnyder micahsnyder merged commit 6c0d644 into Cisco-Talos:main Jul 23, 2024
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