[clamav-users] LibClamAV Warning: PNG: Unexpected early end-of-file.

Andrew C Aitchison clamav at aitchison.me.uk
Mon Dec 12 16:12:26 UTC 2022


On Mon, 12 Dec 2022, newcomer01 via clamav-users wrote:

> can nobody explain, what this message exactly mean?
> I Get the on lot of my E-mails
> LibClamAV Warning: PNG: Unexpected early end-of-file.

That just means that the PNG file is either not a PNG for or is corrupted
- perhaps truncated.

> Should i change something in my config for clamscan?

No.

> And mybe devs of clamav reas here to, it would be really nice, if you 
can add the optional
> paramteter "---cofig-file="FILE" to clamscan too. Currnty only 
cmab*d*scan has the option

The config file is for the clamd *daemon*.
clamd and clamdscan refer to it, but clamscan does not refer
this config file (although it *does* refer to freshclam.conf).

Which settings do you expect clamscan to read from this config ?

-- 
Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew at aitchison.me.uk


More information about the clamav-users mailing list