[clamav-users] Malformed DB in daily-26708.cdiff?

[Ben Argyle]

Hi All,

I'll admit up front I'm running ClamAV v100.3 on RHEL 6.  This is not my fault, but also nothing I can do anything about (the hosts doing so are long-scheduled for decommissioning).  As such I don't expect any help.  But I am interested if this is where I get another string to my bow to tell the people who won't move off these hosts that now they have no ClamAV protection from newer threats.

As of daily-26708.cdiff I get this on all of those hosts when running freshclam:

# freshclam
ClamAV update process started at Wed Nov  2 09:18:06 2022
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.100.3 Recommended version: 0.103.7
DON'T PANIC! Read https://www.clamav.net/documents/upgrading-clamav
main.cld is up to date (version: 62, sigs: 6647427, f-level: 90, builder: sigmgr)
Downloading daily-26707.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-26708.cdiff [100%]
ERROR: During database load : WARNING: [LibClamAV] cli_hex2str(): Malformed hexstring: >>26#ib2#>512 (length: 13) [...] ERROR: Failed to load new database: Malformed database
WARNING: Database load exited with status 55
ERROR: Failed to load new database

Is this an incompatibility with v100.3, or an error in the cdiff?

With thanks,

Ben