MJ wrote:

> We are using Clamav. It seems this error occurs occasionally. Following
> are the logs of last 18 hours and this message appears 6 times during
> this period.

> Thanks,
> MJ
> ======== grep Decoding /var/log/syslog =======

> Jul 31 00:01:10 mailgate1 amavis[21254]: [ID 702911 mail.warning]
> (21254-07) Decoding of p002 (Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract)
> failed, leaving it unpacked: IO error: reading data :  
> Jul 31 01:52:40 mailgate1 amavis[23470]: [ID 702911 mail.warning]
> (23470-01) Decoding of p002 (Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract)
> failed, leaving it unpacked: IO error: reading data :  
> Jul 31 01:57:30 mailgate1 amavis[23490]: [ID 702911 mail.warning]
> (23490-03) Decoding of p002 (Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract)
> failed, leaving it unpacked: IO error: reading data :  
> Jul 31 01:57:45 mailgate1 amavis[23487]: [ID 702911 mail.warning]
> (23487-03) Decoding of p002 (Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract)
> failed, leaving it unpacked: IO error: reading data :  
> Jul 31 06:48:30 mailgate1 amavis[9114]: [ID 702911 mail.warning]
> (09114-05) Decoding of p002 (Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract)
> failed, leaving it unpacked: IO error: reading data :  
> Jul 31 07:47:50 mailgate1 amavis[10291]: [ID 702911 mail.warning]
> (10291-09) Decoding of p002 (Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract)
> failed, leaving it unpacked: IO error: reading data :  

> ===== End =======

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary V [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 6:14 PM
> To: MJ
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [AMaViS-user] Decoding Problem

> MJ wrote:

>> Hi,
>> Can someone help me why I have this error in my logs?

>> amavis[23470]: [ID 702911 mail.warning] (23470-01) Decoding of p002
> (Zip
>> archive data , at least v1.0 to extract) failed, leaving it unpacked:
> IO
>> error: reading data :

>> Hi,

>> Following is the output of perl -MArchive::Zip -e'print
>> "$Archive::Zip::VERSION\n";'

>> 1.16

>> Please advice.
>> MJ

> I would want to know what virus scanner (if any) you are using. Does
> this happen every time you send a zip through? Can you find this
> particular message and send it back through to see if it happens every
> time. If it does not, then I wonder if the "IO error: reading data :"
> message may be referring to a physical disk problem.

I think there is a need to determine if this error is related to a message
containing a particular .zip file, or whether this happens randomly to
.zip files that are not related to each other. That would help to
determine if a file has either by accident, or purposefully, been
created to (once again) exploit a flaw in the unpacker code. If a
sample could be obtained, it could be tested on other systems. I don't
know if this is related to clamd or not. But even if it is not
related, I would make sure you are using the latest versions of both
ClamAV, and zlib. Earlier versions have known vulnerabilities. I would
also be curious if command line clamscan and clamdscan were able to
find a virus in the .zip file (or if they crash trying to scan them).

Gary V



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