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[ openantivirus-Bugs-619508 ] latest virus signatures causes crash

[CCed: to Debian maintainers of oav-update and kaffe]

Hello,

Is someone else able to please follow up on this?

I have been able to reproduce this bug on two completely
different woody systems now.

If it is indeed a bug/limitation/feature in kaffe, as the upstream
maintainers think, I am not sure what to do about it...

Assumming others can reproduce this bug, and it isn't just
me ;-), this will make scannerdaemon in testing, unstable
(and stable; but I don't think it got into stable) unusable
with current versions of the virus database.

This in turn will break programs like amavis which can no longer
scan for virusses (unless you also have a non-free, non
Debian distributed virus scanner configured).

(note: if clamscan is installed, oav-update will refuse to
install the latest virus signatures because it will detect
that it breaks clamscan; however no similar check is yet in
place for scannerdaemon).
-- 
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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Bugs item #619508, was opened at 2002-10-07 06:48
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Category: ScannerDaemon
Group: None
>Status: Closed
Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Brian May (bmay)
Assigned to: Kurt Huwig (kurti)
Summary: latest virus signatures causes crash

Initial Comment:
OpenAntivirus ScannerDaemon v0.5.1
(c) 2001-2002 iKu Netzwerklösungen http://www.iku-netz.de/
ScannerDaemon comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for
details read 'COPYING'.
This is free software, and you are welcome to
redistribute it under certain
conditions; for details read 'COPYING'.
Reading 'virussignatures.strings'...
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
	at
java.lang.StringBuffer.ensureCapacity(StringBuffer.java:131)
	at java.lang.StringBuffer.append(StringBuffer.java:73)
	at java.lang.StringBuffer.append(StringBuffer.java:49)
	at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.java:146)
	at
org.openantivirus.scanner.StringVirusFinder.<init>(StringVirusFinder.java:44)
	at
org.openantivirus.credo.CredoParser.doParse(CredoParser.java:87)
	at
org.openantivirus.credo.CredoParser.parse(CredoParser.java:71)
	at
org.openantivirus.credo.CredoParser.parse(CredoParser.java:68)
	at
org.openantivirus.credo.CredoParser.load(CredoParser.java:53)
	at org.openantivirus.scanner.ScannerDaemon.<init>(ScannerDaemon.java:67)	at
org.openantivirus.scanner.ScannerDaemon.main(ScannerDaemon.java:131)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:native)
	at kaffe.jar.ExecJarName.main(ExecJarName.java:70)
	at kaffe.jar.ExecJar.main(ExecJar.java:61)

I do not believe this is a geniune out of memory problem:

snoopy:unstable:~# free
             total       used       free     shared   
buffers     cached
Mem:        126324     122736       3588          0   
   4880      22420
-/+ buffers/cache:      95436      30888
Swap:       390456     176264     214192


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Comment By: Kurt Huwig (kurti)
Date: 2002-10-07 14:06

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=78306

It is a memory problem; the current signature file has far
more signatures than the previous version. Maybe kaffe
cannot handle this and maybe there are command line options
to allow more memory to be consumed. Please ask on the kaffe
homepage about this.

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