This one time, at band camp, Alessandro Polverini said: > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:19 +1030, John Pearson wrote: > > > > clamd and clamscan appear to run forever trying to scan issue > > 4-70 of the linux-kernel daily digest from lists.us.dell.com. > > > > I've attached (I hope) the output of 'clamscan --debug lk-4-70.eml' > > and the offending email. I killed it after about 2 minutes > > on my athlon XP2100, but it seemed happy to run essentially forever > > on our mail server at work, so I assume it's looping on something. > > I can confirm the bad behavior, today it has bitten me too :(
Oh, and just something for the submitter to think about - by sending the file that hung clam in the email, you effectively DoS'ed the clam processes of everybody who reads clamav's bug list :) I got the reply before I got the original, presumably because of this issue. It might be better in the future, if you have something that appears to hang clamav, to just send a link to a web accessable file, or password protect a zip file or something. But no harm done - I temp failed a few dozen messages, but I'm sure the ones I want will try again. Take care, and thanks again for reporting, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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