I just upgraded to amavisd-new 2.8.0, and I see the following emitted when I start up:

zimbra@zre-ldap002:~$ zmamavisdctl start
Starting amavisd...Amavis::Util: can't obtain a tainted string at /opt/zimbra/amavisd/sbin/amavisd line 2609.
done.

zimbra@zre-ldap002:~$ echo $?
0

It doesn't appear to stop amavis from running:

zimbra@zre-ldap002:~$ ps -eaf | grep amavis
zimbra 6174 1 0 09:01 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/amavisd/sbin/amavisd (master) zimbra 6175 6174 0 09:01 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/amavisd/sbin/amavisd (virgin child) zimbra 6176 6174 0 09:01 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/amavisd/sbin/amavisd (virgin child) zimbra 6177 6174 0 09:01 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/amavisd/sbin/amavisd (virgin child) zimbra 6178 6174 0 09:01 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/amavisd/sbin/amavisd (virgin child) zimbra 6179 6174 0 09:01 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/amavisd/sbin/amavisd (virgin child) zimbra 6180 6174 0 09:01 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/amavisd/sbin/amavisd (virgin child) zimbra 6181 6174 0 09:01 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/amavisd/sbin/amavisd (virgin child) zimbra 6182 6174 0 09:01 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/amavisd/sbin/amavisd (virgin child) zimbra 6183 6174 0 09:01 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/amavisd/sbin/amavisd (virgin child) zimbra 6184 6174 0 09:01 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/amavisd/sbin/amavisd (virgin child)
zimbra    6195  3166  0 09:01 pts/0    00:00:00 grep amavis


The block in question is:

2602 use vars qw($enc_ascii $enc_utf8 $enc_tainted);
2603 BEGIN {
2604   $enc_ascii = Encode::find_encoding('ascii');
2605   $enc_utf8  = Encode::find_encoding('UTF-8');
2606   $enc_ascii  or die "Amavis::Util: unknown encoding 'ascii'";
2607   $enc_utf8   or die "Amavis::Util: unknown encoding 'UTF-8'";
2608 $enc_tainted = substr($ENV{PATH}.$ENV{HOME}, 0,0); # tainted empty string 2609 tainted($enc_tainted) or warn "Amavis::Util: can't obtain a tainted string";
2610   1;
2611 }


Any idea what the cause is?

Thanks,
Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Zimbra, Inc
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