*** This bug is a security vulnerability ***
You have been subscribed to a public security bug by Seth Arnold (seth-arnold):
My system showed unusually high memory and swap usage for a few weeks,
also occasional lags in situations when it was always brisk before. I
naturally ran clamscan to check. Pnscan was flagged as containing the
malware. I removed and purged pnscan, and continued to scan for
anything else out of line. Saw nothing else, and rebooted. Memory and
swap usage was normal for several hours. Then I reinstalled pnscan from
the repository. Clamscan reported Unix.Tool.Pnscan-8031486-0 in pnscan
again. So I removed and purged pnscan again.
I recognize that clamscan could be misleading here, but I never saw this
report before, and it's clear that my memory and swap issues haven't
returned.
I'm going to suggest this is a security vulnerability, even though the
clamscan result might be misleading.
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Release: 20.04
uname -a
Linux ryzen7 5.4.0-107-lowlatency #121-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 24 16:45:08
UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
pnscan 1.12+git20180612-2
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: pnscan 1.12+git20180612-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-107.121-lowlatency 5.4.174
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-107-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.23
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Tue Apr 12 20:48:45 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-03 (3417 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pnscan
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-29 (713 days ago)
** Affects: pnscan (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug focal
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Clamscan reports Unix.Tool.Pnscan-8031486-0 in 1.12+git20180612-2 pnscan version
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1968806
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