Re: Virus Checking - COMPLETELY UNENCUMBERED!
Tim Bell <bhat@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
> For decompressors which can operate in a pipe (like bzip2, gzip), is
> there anything much wrong with doing the decompressing something
> like this:
>
> $ cat $TMPFILE | bzcat | head -c $SIZELIMIT > $TMPFILEOUT
>
> ?
No. That is exactly what AMaViS-ng does. And security is the reason
why AMaViS-ng only supports unpacking programs that can unpack things
to stdout.
Anybody tried that 2gig.bz2 trick, yet? ;-)
-Hilko
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