Your message dated Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:53:43 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1043428: fixed in clamav 1.4.4+dfsg-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #1043428,
regarding clamav: Mention in the README.Debian that clamAV AppArmor profiles do
not allow OnAccess scanning
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1043428: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1043428
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: clamav
Version: 0.103.8+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: a11y patch
Dear Maintainer,
Apparmor profiles included with the Ubuntu packages - "clamav-daemon"
and "clamav-freshclam" - do not allow the proper execution of clamd
(disallow OnAccess scanning).
The only missing capability that prevents clamd from starting in OnAccess mode
seems to be the 'sys_admin' capability.
The best way would be to handle it by giving cap_sys_admin to /usr/sbin/clamd
or to the clamav user.
The apparmor rule that would need to be added by default is considered not safe.
Therefore, the fix can only be to ensure users who want to use it this way are
aware.
Proposed diff in the attachment.
-- Package-specific info:
--- configuration ---
Checking configuration files in /etc/clamav
Config file: clamd.conf
-----------------------
AlertExceedsMax disabled
PreludeEnable disabled
PreludeAnalyzerName = "ClamAV"
LogFile = "/var/log/clamav/clamav.log"
LogFileUnlock disabled
LogFileMaxSize = "4294967295"
LogTime = "yes"
LogClean disabled
LogSyslog disabled
LogFacility = "LOG_LOCAL6"
LogVerbose disabled
LogRotate = "yes"
ExtendedDetectionInfo = "yes"
PidFile disabled
TemporaryDirectory disabled
DatabaseDirectory = "/var/lib/clamav"
OfficialDatabaseOnly disabled
LocalSocket = "/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl"
LocalSocketGroup = "clamav"
LocalSocketMode = "666"
FixStaleSocket = "yes"
TCPSocket disabled
TCPAddr disabled
MaxConnectionQueueLength = "15"
StreamMaxLength = "26214400"
StreamMinPort = "1024"
StreamMaxPort = "2048"
MaxThreads = "12"
ReadTimeout = "180"
CommandReadTimeout = "30"
SendBufTimeout = "200"
MaxQueue = "100"
IdleTimeout = "30"
ExcludePath disabled
MaxDirectoryRecursion = "15"
FollowDirectorySymlinks disabled
FollowFileSymlinks disabled
CrossFilesystems = "yes"
SelfCheck = "3600"
ConcurrentDatabaseReload = "yes"
DisableCache disabled
VirusEvent disabled
ExitOnOOM disabled
AllowAllMatchScan = "yes"
Foreground disabled
Debug disabled
LeaveTemporaryFiles disabled
User = "clamav"
Bytecode = "yes"
BytecodeSecurity = "TrustSigned"
BytecodeTimeout = "60000"
BytecodeUnsigned disabled
BytecodeMode = "Auto"
DetectPUA disabled
ExcludePUA disabled
IncludePUA disabled
ScanPE = "yes"
ScanELF = "yes"
ScanMail = "yes"
ScanPartialMessages disabled
PhishingSignatures = "yes"
PhishingScanURLs = "yes"
HeuristicAlerts = "yes"
HeuristicScanPrecedence disabled
StructuredDataDetection disabled
StructuredMinCreditCardCount = "3"
StructuredMinSSNCount = "3"
StructuredSSNFormatNormal = "yes"
StructuredSSNFormatStripped disabled
ScanHTML = "yes"
ScanOLE2 = "yes"
AlertBrokenExecutables disabled
AlertBrokenMedia disabled
AlertEncrypted disabled
StructuredCCOnly disabled
AlertEncryptedArchive disabled
AlertEncryptedDoc disabled
AlertOLE2Macros disabled
AlertPhishingSSLMismatch disabled
AlertPhishingCloak disabled
AlertPartitionIntersection disabled
ScanPDF = "yes"
ScanSWF = "yes"
ScanXMLDOCS = "yes"
ScanHWP3 = "yes"
ScanArchive = "yes"
ForceToDisk disabled
MaxScanTime = "120000"
MaxScanSize = "104857600"
MaxFileSize = "26214400"
MaxRecursion = "16"
MaxFiles = "10000"
MaxEmbeddedPE = "10485760"
MaxHTMLNormalize = "10485760"
MaxHTMLNoTags = "2097152"
MaxScriptNormalize = "5242880"
MaxZipTypeRcg = "1048576"
MaxPartitions = "50"
MaxIconsPE = "100"
MaxRecHWP3 = "16"
PCREMatchLimit = "10000"
PCRERecMatchLimit = "5000"
PCREMaxFileSize = "26214400"
OnAccessMountPath disabled
OnAccessIncludePath disabled
OnAccessExcludePath disabled
OnAccessExcludeRootUID disabled
OnAccessExcludeUID disabled
OnAccessExcludeUname disabled
OnAccessMaxFileSize = "5242880"
OnAccessDisableDDD disabled
OnAccessPrevention disabled
OnAccessExtraScanning disabled
OnAccessCurlTimeout = "5000"
OnAccessMaxThreads = "5"
OnAccessRetryAttempts disabled
OnAccessDenyOnError disabled
DevACOnly disabled
DevACDepth disabled
DevPerformance disabled
DevLiblog disabled
DisableCertCheck disabled
AlgorithmicDetection = "yes"
BlockMax disabled
PhishingAlwaysBlockSSLMismatch disabled
PhishingAlwaysBlockCloak disabled
PartitionIntersection disabled
OLE2BlockMacros disabled
ArchiveBlockEncrypted disabled
Config file: freshclam.conf
---------------------------
LogFileMaxSize = "4294967295"
LogTime = "yes"
LogSyslog disabled
LogFacility = "LOG_LOCAL6"
LogVerbose disabled
LogRotate = "yes"
PidFile disabled
DatabaseDirectory = "/var/lib/clamav"
Foreground disabled
Debug disabled
UpdateLogFile = "/var/log/clamav/freshclam.log"
DatabaseOwner = "clamav"
Checks = "24"
DNSDatabaseInfo = "current.cvd.clamav.net"
DatabaseMirror = "db.local.clamav.net", "database.clamav.net"
PrivateMirror disabled
MaxAttempts = "5"
ScriptedUpdates = "yes"
TestDatabases = "yes"
CompressLocalDatabase disabled
ExtraDatabase disabled
ExcludeDatabase disabled
DatabaseCustomURL disabled
HTTPProxyServer disabled
HTTPProxyPort disabled
HTTPProxyUsername disabled
HTTPProxyPassword disabled
HTTPUserAgent disabled
NotifyClamd = "/etc/clamav/clamd.conf"
OnUpdateExecute disabled
OnErrorExecute disabled
OnOutdatedExecute disabled
LocalIPAddress disabled
ConnectTimeout = "30"
ReceiveTimeout disabled
Bytecode = "yes"
clamav-milter.conf not found
Software settings
-----------------
Version: 0.103.8
Optional features supported: MEMPOOL IPv6 FRESHCLAM_DNS_FIX AUTOIT_EA06 BZIP2
LIBXML2 PCRE2 ICONV JSON
Database information
--------------------
Database directory: /var/lib/clamav
main.cvd: version 62, sigs: 6647427, built on Thu Sep 16 14:32:42 2021
daily.cld: version 26996, sigs: 2039824, built on Thu Aug 10 09:33:34 2023
bytecode.cld: version 334, sigs: 91, built on Wed Feb 22 22:33:21 2023
Total number of signatures: 8687342
Platform information
--------------------
uname: Linux 5.15.0-79-generic #86~20.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jul 17 23:27:17 UTC
2023 x86_64
OS: linux-gnu, ARCH: x86_64, CPU: x86_64
Full OS version: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
zlib version: 1.2.11 (1.2.11), compile flags: a9
platform id: 0x0a2181810800000000090400
Build information
-----------------
GNU C: 9.4.0 (9.4.0)
CPPFLAGS: -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
CFLAGS: -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/clamav-q8zvwf/clamav-0.103.8+dfsg=.
-fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
CXXFLAGS: -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/clamav-q8zvwf/clamav-0.103.8+dfsg=.
-fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
LDFLAGS: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,--as-needed
Configure: '--build=x86_64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr'
'--includedir=/usr/include' '--mandir=/usr/share/man'
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var'
'--disable-silent-rules' '--libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu'
'--runstatedir=/run' '--disable-maintainer-mode'
'--disable-dependency-tracking' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/clamav-q8zvwf/clamav-0.103.8+dfsg=.
-fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' 'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' 'CXXFLAGS=-g
-O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/clamav-q8zvwf/clamav-0.103.8+dfsg=.
-fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro
-Wl,-z,now -Wl,--as-needed' '--with-dbdir=/var/lib/clamav'
'--sysconfdir=/etc/clamav' '--disable-clamav' '--disable-unrar'
'--enable-milter' '--enable-dns-fix' '--with-libjson' '--with-system-libmspack'
'--with-libcurl=/usr' '--with-gnu-ld'
'--with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system'
'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'OBJCFLAGS=-g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/clamav-q8zvwf/clamav-0.103.8+dfsg=.
-fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security'
sizeof(void*) = 8
Engine flevel: 129, dconf: 129
--- data dir ---
total 358548
-rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 1430528 Feb 22 23:02 bytecode.cld
-rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 195224576 Aug 10 10:29 daily.cld
-rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 69 Aug 31 2022 freshclam.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 170479789 Aug 31 2022 main.cvd
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers focal-updates
APT policy: (500, 'focal-updates'), (500, 'focal-security'), (500,
'focal-proposed'), (500, 'focal'), (100, 'focal-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-79-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages clamav depends on:
ii clamav-freshclam [clamav-data] 0.103.8+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
ii libc6 2.31-0ubuntu9.12
ii libclamav9 0.103.8+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
ii libcurl4 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.19
ii libjson-c4 0.13.1+dfsg-7ubuntu0.3
ii libssl1.1 1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.19
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu1.5
Versions of packages clamav recommends:
ii clamav-base 0.103.8+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
Versions of packages clamav suggests:
pn clamav-docs <none>
pn libclamunrar <none>
-- no debconf information
diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 8c7180ce..d4e2a7b0 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -277,7 +277,11 @@ APPARMOR PROFILES
/etc/clamav/onupdateexecute.d, or /etc/clamav/virusevent.d directories,
appropriate rules need to be added to the apparmor profile.
- If you prefer to fully disable AppArmor confinement for
+ A common case is ScanOnAccess which for example you'd best allow via
+ a local overrides (see /etc/apparmor.d/local/README)
+ echo "capability sys_admin," >> /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.sbin.clamd
+
+ If you instead prefer to fully disable AppArmor confinement for
clamav-daemon or freshclam, run respectively:
aa-disable /usr/sbin/clamd
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: clamav
Source-Version: 1.4.4+dfsg-2
Done: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
clamav, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> (supplier of updated clamav
package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing [email protected])
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Hash: SHA512
Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:24:13 +0200
Source: clamav
Architecture: source
Version: 1.4.4+dfsg-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: ClamAV Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Closes: 1043428 1089046 1092882 1103001 1123913 1134489 1136481 1138312 1138938
Changes:
clamav (1.4.4+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Sebastian Andrzej Siewior ]
* Get it compiled aganst OpenSSL 4.0 (Closes: #1138312).
* Depend on procps for pidof in tests (Closes: #1136481).
* Update apparmor profile for clamd (Closes: #1092882, #1123913).
* Remove Scott from the uploads. Thank you for all what you done
(Closes: 1138938).
* Don't Enable freshclam once+timer by default (Closes: #1134489).
* Mention in the README.Debian that clamAV AppArmor profiles do not allow
OnAccess scanning ("Closes: #1043428).
* Add Romanian debconf templates translation (Closes: #1103001).
.
[ Helmut Grohne ]
* Improve cross building: (Closes: #1089046)
+ Skip tests in arch-only build with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck.
+ Skip doxygen in arch-only build.
+ Demote/annotate conditional dependencies.
.
[ Pétur Ingi Egilsson ]
* clamav-daemon.postinst.in: honour "none" as a way to disable
the LogFile directive.
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