Sophie: clamav-0.54-7mdk i586

clamav-0.54-7mdk.i586.rpm

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Security</A>
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    Clam AntiVirus cares about security. Dangerous operations (such as
    extracting, temporary file creation, unlink() operations) are executed
    with <I>clamav</I> privileges. <B>But there are no programs without
    bugs.</B> This is a young project and everything is possible. In some places
    it uses the <I>snprintf()</I> function, some older systems (C libraries)
    however the buffer length in this function isn't checked. This example
    shows, that you should check your system first. Never set SUID/SGID bits on
    Clam AntiVirus executables. If the SUID bit is set and <I>clamscan</I> is
    owned by root, every file on the system may be modified with the
    <I>-log</I> option.
    Normal users may use <I>clamscan</I> to scan their files, other files
    shouldn't interest them.

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Tomasz Kojm
2002-11-21
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