Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-10 Thread Stanislas LEVEAU
All is ok now thanks a lot Stan Le 08/03/2017 à 22:19, Al Varnell a écrit : The problem was fixed by the very next signature update (daily - 23162), seven hours after 23161 was released. -Al- On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Stanislas LEVEAU wrote: Hi, You known when this build is ok f

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-08 Thread Al Varnell
The problem was fixed by the very next signature update (daily - 23162), seven hours after 23161 was released. -Al- On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Stanislas LEVEAU wrote: > > Hi, > > You known when this build is ok for pcre libraries older than 7.0? > > Thanks for your help. > > Regards.

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-08 Thread Stanislas LEVEAU
Hi, You known when this build is ok for pcre libraries older than 7.0? Thanks for your help. Regards. Stan Le 03/03/2017 à 22:00, Alain Zidouemba a écrit : We are coming to the same conclusions. The issue seem to isolated to using pcre libraries older than 7.0. I does not affect users of n

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-06 Thread Aaron C. Bolch
On 3/3/17, 2:14 PM, "clamav-users on behalf of Steven Morgan" wrote: Hi Aaron and Leonardo, What are the versions of libpcre on your systems? Thanks, Steve ___ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.n

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-06 Thread Joel Esler (jesler)
This is why user base feedback is important. Regarding lack of detection, this is something I'm having a hard time agreeing with. We are producing more detection now than we ever have and faster. That's a tricky think about detection. Detection is only as good as the last thing missed. --

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam (workaround)

2017-03-05 Thread Adam Gibson
I didn't see any problems on CentOS 7 or CentOS 6 on my systems using clamav with the 23161 daily update. Are you saying you had a problem with them? The only problem was with CentOS 5 on my systems. The workaround would apply to any distribution though that was affected by the regexp not workin

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-05 Thread Noel Jones
On 3/5/2017 6:51 AM, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: > The question here is, do we strive to make a package that is installable on > more machines, (even ones that are going EOL?), or do we strive to make a > package that is the best for security? > It's my understanding that the new features in pcr

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam (workaround)

2017-03-05 Thread Benny Pedersen
Adam Gibson skrev den 2017-03-05 16:29: This whitelists those patterns so they do not even get processed to cause the crash in the regexp engine that clamd uses. Clamd started up fine for me with CentOS 5 after doing that. did you test that this is same problem in centos 7 ? come on :=) y

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-05 Thread Paul Kosinski
I build Linux ClamAV from source, mainly due to distro maintainers being (quite) behind the latest official ClamAV. Also, I build ClamAV into /opt, so I can keep previous versions just in case. On Sun, 5 Mar 2017 12:51:04 + "Joel Esler (jesler)" wrote: > The question here is, do we strive t

[clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam (workaround)

2017-03-05 Thread Adam Gibson
I had email domain issues which kept me from posting this the day of the problem unfortunately so this info is just for future reference I guess. If a problem like this comes up again, I found that you can create a whitelist file to ignore some signatures. I put the following file in the virus da

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.03.2017 um 14:07 schrieb Carlos Velasco: Another option would be to include a "static" internal version of pcre in ClamAV. Although this option I like much less... this is not a good option because you have easily multiple versions of the pcre library in the same process when somethin

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-05 Thread Carlos Velasco
El 05/03/2017 a las 13:51, Joel Esler (jesler) escribió: > The question here is, do we strive to make a package that is installable on > more machines, (even ones that are going EOL?), or do we strive to make a > package that is the best for security? > > If the package maintainers are doing a g

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-05 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
Em 04/03/17 22:03, Reindl Harald escreveu: Am 04.03.2017 um 23:54 schrieb Joel Esler (jesler): We cannot be tied to distribution support problems. but when you think as long as every other software works on RHEL/CentOS and only ClamAV decides to make hard requirements breaking that from one

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-05 Thread Joel Esler (jesler)
The question here is, do we strive to make a package that is installable on more machines, (even ones that are going EOL?), or do we strive to make a package that is the best for security? If the package maintainers are doing a good job, ClamAV with a higher dependency would install the higher

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-05 Thread Ned Slider
On 04/03/17 22:54, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: We cannot be tied to distribution support problems. That's fine Joel. You obviously know your own target audience. If it's not me I can look elsewhere for solutions :-) On Mar 4, 2017, at 17:44, Benny Pedersen wrote: Leonardo Rodrigues skrev

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.03.2017 um 23:54 schrieb Joel Esler (jesler): We cannot be tied to distribution support problems. but when you think as long as every other software works on RHEL/CentOS and only ClamAV decides to make hard requirements breaking that from one day to another i fear ClamAV (as apckage n

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.03.2017 um 23:43 schrieb Benny Pedersen: Leonardo Rodrigues skrev den 2017-03-04 23:12: is clamav a redhat product ?!?! I don't think so. That being said, i see absolutely no point at all on saying clamav should do this because redhat does that. good point Anyone wishing to be update

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.03.2017 um 23:12 schrieb Leonardo Rodrigues: is clamav a redhat product ?!?! I don't think so. That being said, i see absolutely no point at all on saying clamav should do this because redhat does that. Anyone wishing to be updated with a 10+ years rhel install, should call redh

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-04 Thread Benny Pedersen
Joel Esler (jesler) skrev den 2017-03-04 23:54: We cannot be tied to distribution support problems. where did i ask for that ? ___ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-04 Thread Joel Esler (jesler)
We cannot be tied to distribution support problems. -- Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 4, 2017, at 17:44, Benny Pedersen wrote: > > Leonardo Rodrigues skrev den 2017-03-04 23:12: >> is clamav a redhat product ?!?! I don't think so. That being said, i >> see absolutely no point at all on saying cl

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-04 Thread Benny Pedersen
Leonardo Rodrigues skrev den 2017-03-04 23:12: is clamav a redhat product ?!?! I don't think so. That being said, i see absolutely no point at all on saying clamav should do this because redhat does that. good point Anyone wishing to be updated with a 10+ years rhel install, should call redha

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-04 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
is clamav a redhat product ?!?! I don't think so. That being said, i see absolutely no point at all on saying clamav should do this because redhat does that. Anyone wishing to be updated with a 10+ years rhel install, should call redhat for that :) my 0.02 cents ... Em 04/03/

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-04 Thread Ned Slider
On 03/03/17 23:53, Scott Kitterman wrote: As far as I can tell, pcre 7 came out before 2008. I think a decade is enough time to insist people upgrade. Scott K Red Hat typically now supports each release of RHEL for at least a decade, and that's not including any additional extended support

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
In Debian we back port security fixes the same way, but libraries with different SO names are co-installable, so there's generally ways to deal with these things. Clamav itself is an exception since not keeping up in functionality means you lose the arms race. Scott K On March 3, 2017 7:04:03

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Chris Conn
Hello, Insist :) Well, its considered bad practice to upgrade packages independently on a RH-based system where dependancies break. Security fixes are back-ported to older versions to preserve versioning an compatibility. Thats a Redhat feature I agree, and RHEL5 will be EOL in 28 days, so

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
As far as I can tell, pcre 7 came out before 2008. I think a decade is enough time to insist people upgrade. Scott K On Friday, March 03, 2017 11:21:30 PM Joel Esler wrote: > If we required pcre 7, it would allow us to publish this kind of sig in the > future of 99.3 and high versions by requir

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Joel Esler (jesler)
If we required pcre 7, it would allow us to publish this kind of sig in the future of 99.3 and high versions by requiring a certain "flevel". -- Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 3, 2017, at 18:18, Chris Conn wrote: > > Hello, > > Looks like my off-list email went on the list LOL. So much for no

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Chris Conn
Hello, Looks like my off-list email went on the list LOL. So much for not making noise. Woops. If the 0.99.3 or whatever later version where this would be implemented requires PCRE 7, would that break database updates for versions that have not upgraded if this pcre format is re-used in th

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Joel Esler (jesler)
A new daily with the Sig dropped. Probably what we will do to prevent this from happening again, is to have 0.99.3 (the upcoming version) require pcre 7. How does that sound? -- Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 3, 2017, at 18:08, Chris Conn wrote: > > Hello, > > I hope you don't mind my cont

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Chris Conn
Hello, I hope you don't mind my contact off-list, I don't want to make noise on it for all. Apologies. This new build, are we talking about a daily.cvd (23162?) or a new build of clam/pcre? Thanks again in advance for your help, Chris On 3/3/2017 4:00 PM, Alain Zidouemba wrote: We are

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Stanislas LEVEAU
thanks for this build because i have the same problem with pcre in rel5 Now, I think it will be necessary to quickly update the servers ;-) regards Le 03/03/2017 à 22:00, Alain Zidouemba a écrit : We are coming to the same conclusions. The issue seem to isolated to using pcre libraries olde

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Alain Zidouemba
We are coming to the same conclusions. The issue seem to isolated to using pcre libraries older than 7.0. I does not affect users of newer versions of pcre or users of pcre2. A new build with the fix is in progress now. Apologies for the impact this has caused. Alain On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:3

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Chris Conn
Hello, That may be true, but you also have to maintain a self-compiled version of clamav now, and future updates you will need to re-do this. This may be satisfactory to you as I don't of course know or understand your particular situation, but for the clamav userbase that is using RHEL5 (or

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
Em 03/03/17 17:31, Chris Conn escreveu: Updating the PCRE manually doesn't seem like an option as it will break dependancies for important packages, grep, php and httpd among others. I had success installing new PCRE libs on /usr/local (thus keeping system libraries untouched) and recom

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Chris Conn
Hello, If I can add to this discussion; since daily 23161 some RHEL5 systems (pcre-6.6-9) are failing with that same error. A number of them have down clamd at the moment. Updating the PCRE manually doesn't seem like an option as it will break dependancies for important packages, grep, php

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
I said in a previous mail, that i had the problem on CentOS 6 boxes, and that's not true, sorry for that. All my CentOS 6 boxes are OK, and they have latest pcre from CentOS: [root@correio ~]# rpm -qa | grep pcre pcre-devel-7.8-7.el6.x86_64 pcre-7.8-7.el6.x86_64 The boxes on CentOS 5

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Steven Morgan
Hi Aaron and Leonardo, What are the versions of libpcre on your systems? Thanks, Steve ___ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Steve Basford
On Fri, March 3, 2017 7:20 pm, Alain Zidouemba wrote: > We're pulling the signature causing the issue now, while we investigate > the cause. > > - Alain Hi Alain, I think the fix is... Replace ? with ?P when the PCRE library is old ie. ?< to ?P< On... Doc.Macro.GenericHeuristic-5901772-0 Doc

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Alain Zidouemba
We're pulling the signature causing the issue now, while we investigate the cause. - Alain On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Aaron C. Bolch wrote: > Greetings, > > After Daily Update 23161 was applied, the following error happened: > > Database initialization error: can’t compile engine: Malform

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
OK, so it's PCRE related. Compiling new PCRE libs and linking clamav to it should solve the problem, that's right ? Em 03/03/17 15:11, Steve Basford escreveu: It's a macro detecting ldb Sig that fails due to an old pcre engine being used. The Sig can be rewritten to work on older pcre

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Steve Basford
It's a macro detecting ldb Sig that fails due to an old pcre engine being used. The Sig can be rewritten to work on older pcre versions .. or you need to update. Sorry I can't help more. Cheers, Steve Twitter: @sanesecurity On 3 March 2017 17:39:48 "Aaron C. Bolch" wrote: Greetings, A

Re: [clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
Same problem here with 0.99.2 on CentOS 6 machine: [root@correio clamav]# service clamd start Starting Clam AV daemon: LibClamAV Error: cli_pcre_compile: PCRE compilation failed at offset 52: unrecognized character after (?< LibClamAV Error: cli_pcre_build: failed to build pcre regex ERROR

[clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

2017-03-03 Thread Aaron C. Bolch
Greetings, After Daily Update 23161 was applied, the following error happened: Database initialization error: can’t compile engine: Malformed Database When starting Clamd: LibCLamAV Error: cli_pcre_compile: PCRE compilation failed at offset 52: unrecognized character after (?< LibClamAV Error