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Welcome to ClamAV 0.98.5! ClamAV 0.98.5 includes important new features
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for collecting and analyzing file properties. Software developers and
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analysts may collect file property meta data using the ClamAV API for
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subsequent analysis by ClamAV bytecode programs. Using these features
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will require that libjson-c is installed, but otherwise libjson-c is not
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Look for our upcoming series of blog posts to learn more about using the
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ClamAV API and bytecode facilities for collecting and analyzing file
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ClamAV 0.98.5 also includes these new features and bug fixes:
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- Support for the XDP file format and extracting, decoding, and
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scanning PDF files within XDP files.
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- Addition of shared library support for LLVM versions 3.1 - 3.5
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for the purpose of just-in-time(JIT) compilation of ClamAV
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bytecode signatures. Andreas Cadhalpun submitted the patch
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implementing this support.
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- Enhancements to the clambc command line utility to assist
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ClamAV bytecode signature authors by providing introspection
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into compiled bytecode programs.
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- Resolution of many of the warning messages from ClamAV compilation.
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- Improved detection of malicious PE files.
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- Security fix for ClamAV crash when using 'clamscan -a'. This issue
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was identified by Kurt Siefried of Red Hat.
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- Security fix for ClamAV crash when scanning maliciously crafted
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yoda's crypter files. This issue, as well as several other bugs
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fixed in this release, were identified by Damien Millescamp of
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- ClamAV 0.98.5 now works with OpenSSL in FIPS compliant mode.
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Thanks to Reinhard Max for supplying the patch.
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- Bug fixes and other feature enhancements. See Changelog or
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ClamAV 0.98.6 is a bug fix release correcting the following:
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- library shared object revisions.
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- installation issues on some Mac OS X and FreeBSD platforms.
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- includes a patch from Sebastian Andrzej Siewior making
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ClamAV pid files compatible with systemd.
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- Fix a heap out of bounds condition with crafted Yoda's
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crypter files. This issue was discovered by Felix Groebert
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of the Google Security Team.
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- Fix a heap out of bounds condition with crafted mew packer
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files. This issue was discovered by Felix Groebert of the
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- Fix a heap out of bounds condition with crafted upx packer
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files. This issue was discovered by Kevin Szkudlapski of
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- Fix a heap out of bounds condition with crafted upack packer
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files. This issue was discovered by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior.
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- Compensate a crash due to incorrect compiler optimization when
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handling crafted petite packer files. This issue was discovered
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by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior.
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Thanks to the following ClamAV community members for code submissions
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and bug reporting included in ClamAV 0.98.5:
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and bug reporting included in ClamAV 0.98.6:
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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The ClamAV team (http://www.clamav.net/about.html#credits)
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