[clamav-users] Duplicate entry in SecuriteInfo spam_marketing database

Alan Stern stern at rowland.harvard.edu
Fri Sep 5 14:44:32 UTC 2014


Steve:

I noticed this when the whitelist update notices from the 
clamav-unofficial-sigs.sh script started growing exponentially.  The 
script doesn't anticipate that one signature's hex string might be a 
sub-sequence of another signature's, and it doesn't handle them 
properly when that happens.

In this case, the two entries in the spam_marketing.ndb database are:

SecuriteInfo.com.Spammer.bluehornet.com:4:*:626c7565686f726e65742e636f6d
SecuriteInfo.com.Spammer.echo.bluehornet.com:4:*:6563686f2e626c7565686f726e65742e636f6d

There doesn't seem to be any reason for the second signature, because 
anything it matches will already be matched by the first sig.

There may well be other duplicated entries; this is just the one I 
noticed.

Alan Stern




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