[clamav-users] Problem with ClamAV 0.98.4 - HAVP won't load CVD files

[Paul Kosinski]

I'm using HAVP (0.92) on Linux (openSuSE 13.1) as a virus scanning
filter for HTTP traffic. It worked perfectly with ClamAV 0.98.3 (and
many previous versions), but now it won't start at all with 0.98.4.

HAVP uses libclamav.so to do the actual scanning (more efficient
than even the socket interface), so it starts by loading the various
CVD files.

With 0.98.4, HAVP fails thus:

  25/06/2014 20:30:54 === Starting HAVP Version: 0.92
  25/06/2014 20:30:54 Running as user: havp, group: havp
  25/06/2014 20:30:54 --- Initializing ClamAV Library Scanner
  25/06/2014 20:30:54 ClamAV: Using database directory: /opt/clamav/share/clamav
  25/06/2014 20:30:54 ClamAV: Could not load database: Can't allocate memory
  25/06/2014 20:30:54 Error initializing ClamAV Library Scanner!

While with 0.98.3, HAVP succeeds:

  25/06/2014 20:32:48 === Starting HAVP Version: 0.92
  25/06/2014 20:32:48 Running as user: havp, group: havp
  25/06/2014 20:32:48 --- Initializing ClamAV Library Scanner
  25/06/2014 20:32:48 ClamAV: Using database directory: /opt/clamav/share/clamav
  25/06/2014 20:32:55 ClamAV: Loaded 3470096 signatures (engine 0.98.3)
  25/06/2014 20:32:56 ClamAV Library Scanner passed EICAR virus test (Eicar-Test-Signature)
  25/06/2014 20:32:56 --- All scanners initialized

A previous posting to this list implied that such (presumably bogus)
memory errors might be related to the switch to OpenSSL.  In both
cases, I'm using OpenSSL 1.0.1h-1.60.1 (openSuSE's latest version),
and the clamd.conf file and HAVP binary are the same.