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Re: ClamAV concerns



This one time, at band camp, Martin S said:
> Jan Luehr skrev:
> >What Do you think about this? Do you know reasons for ClamAV's unusual 
> >high number of bugs? Would you abandon ClamAV for server side mail 
> >scanning in favor of other scanners?
> Are you sure it has a "unusual high" number of bugs? I have no 
> experience in OS antivirus solutions, using Clamav on our experimental 
> server (we're looking to migrate from our messaging server of several 
> years). As far as I am currently concerned, as long as updates are 
> provided in a timely manner I'm fine. But I am perhaps not worried enough.
> I also do wonder if the latest advisory for Debian DSA 1549 also relates 
> to Clamav compiled from source. The latest version thereof is 0.93 while 
> the DSA (naturally) only mentions the (earlier) distribution version. I 
> looked at the Clamav site, perhaps in the wrong place, but found no 
> mention of any security updates there.

0.93 contains security fixes in addition to other changes.  For Debian
stable, the applicable security fixes have been applied.  If you look a
the CVEs that corresponds to the DSA, you'll see the versions it applies
to.  And yes, there are a lot of security issues.
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