bug processing zip file with errors {Scanned}

[Scott Silva]

| Hi Phred,
|
| thanx for doing the test... did the queue files qf/df for this message
remain
| in the input queue?
|
| El 30 Jun 2004 a las 11:37, Fred Broughton escribió:
|
| > RH ES3.0 with sendmail 8.12.8, MailSacnner 4.31.6, Archive::Zip 1.09 and
| > Mcafee v4.24.0.
| > MailScanner process that picked up the file died silently (defunct)
| > Email never made it through.

First try to update your McAffee to 4.32.0.
If your contract is still valid, it is a simple download. IF not, move over
to ClamAV.
Free and just as accurate. I have both and they seem to consistently go toe
to toe at catching
nasties.


| >
| >
| >
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: Mariano Absatz [mailto:mailscanner at LISTS.COM.AR]
| > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 09:31
| > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
| > Subject: bug processing zip file with errors
| >
| > Hi,
| >
| > I got again the same problem I described in http://tinyurl.com/228le but
| > now
| > I could capture the message.
| >
| > The culprit is an (apparently) innocent message that contains a
| > corrupted zip
| > file. The big problem is that instead of detecting the zip file as
| > corrupt
| > and do something (maybe we should have an option about what to do?),
| > MailScanner loops infinitely, eating CPU, and the message doesn't get
| > delivered nor deleted.
| >
| > Julian, would you take a look at this when you have a moment, please?
| >
| > INFO: MailScanner 4.29.7 with ZMailer 2.99.56 - Archive::Zip 1.10 -
| > RedHat
| > (used with an old RHL6.1 and with Fedora Core 1). Verified with Perl
| > 5.6.1
| > and 5.8.3.
| >
| > Example corrupt zip file (don't know where it came from nor what it has,
| > it
| > was in a message that triggered the problem):
| > http://baby.com.ar/MailScanner/err_zip/PSt422.zip
| >
| > Would someone with an MTA other than ZMailer try to send this file thru
| > a
| > MailScanner server and see what happens?
| >
| >
| > Example ZMailer queue file:
| > http://baby.com.ar/MailScanner/err_zip/queue_file
| >
| > Supervise log (supervise is capturing STDERR from MailScanner):
| > http://baby.com.ar/MailScanner/err_zip/supervise_times.log
| >
| > MailScanner log of the affected process (pid=3472):
| > http://baby.com.ar/MailScanner/err_zip/mailscanner.log
| > (there were no further output from that PID until I manually killed it
| > at
| > 10:57).
| >
| > Output of 'top -b -n1' before killing the affected process:
| > http://baby.com.ar/MailScanner/err_zip/top.out
| >
|
| --
| Mariano Absatz
| El Baby
| ----------------------------------------------------------
| "An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot"
|                                   -- Rich Julius
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