bug processing zip file with errors

[Holger Gebhard]

Ups... Send the Answer to the wrong Posting the first time ...

For my System it all seems to work OK with the postet Attachment...

System:

Debian
Postfix 2.1.3
SpamAssassin 2.63
MailScanner 4.31.4
Clamav 0.73

When Password-Protected Archives are not allowed -> Message is blocked by
Mailscanner
When Password-Protected Archives are allowed -> Message send as normal



Holger




----- Original Message -----
From: "Mariano Absatz" <mailscanner at LISTS.COM.AR>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 4:30 PM
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
>
> TIA
>
>
> --
> Mariano Absatz
> El Baby
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