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clamav package

  1. Bug #1940927
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 1940927

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Nils Toedtmann (m-launchpad-net-mail-nils-toedtmann-net) wrote :

clamscan throws "LibClamAV Warning: Unsupported message format `global-headers'" when scanning e.g. the exim4 binary from recent releases.

When running clamscan as cronjob, and such STDERR warnings produce disruptive rootmail noise.

For example on my current Ubuntu Focal:

$ apt download exim4-daemon-light
  Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 exim4-daemon-light amd64 4.93-13ubuntu1.5 [534 kB]
  Fetched 534 kB in 0s (3,220 kB/s)
$ ar x exim4-daemon-light_4.93-13ubuntu1.5_amd64.deb
$ tar xf data.tar.xz
$ clamscan ./usr/sbin/exim4
LibClamAV Warning: Unsupported message format `global' - if you believe this file contains a virus, submit it to www.clamav.net

Using clamav 0.103.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04 on Ubuntu 20.04.3