[clamav-users] the problem of endless loop

[Al Varnell]

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-Al-

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 03:56 PM, Tsutomu Oyamada wrote:
> 
> Hi, all.
> 
> I have a question about the error which is caused by the shotage of the size acquired by mpool_malloc function on clamd version 0.97.8.
> 
> the message:
> mpool_malloc(): Attempt to allocate 8388608 bytes. Please report to http://bugs.clamav.net
> 
> This error does not exist in version 0.98 and later, but we think that the problem of endless loop is not fixed even on the latest version.
> When the .hdb data of CVD file is read, the number of HASH table is not be enough, then the cli_htu32_insert function of libclamav/hashdb.c loops and cannot detect the error, and it leads to endless loop.
> We found that the code is not fixed on version 0.99.2.
> 
> We think that the following code of cli_htu32_grow function should be negative value when it returns;
> 
> 391: if(new_capacity == s->capacity || !htable)
> 392: return CL_EMEM;
> 
> Will this fix be released?
> If yes, could you tell us on what version will this fix be released?
> 
> T.O
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