Bug 1765373 - [RFE] ClamAV rar support
Summary: [RFE] ClamAV rar support
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: clamav
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Sergio Basto
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-10-25 00:32 UTC by Sergio Basto
Modified: 2023-08-29 08:36 UTC (History)
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Description Sergio Basto 2019-10-25 00:32:00 UTC 
Someone wrote to me with: 

Do you know if we are ever going to see EPEL ClamAV builds compiled with 
.rar support? I know that ClamAV 0.101.0 added support for 
extraction/scanning of RAR v5.x archives. The feedback I've been
getting from users is that the bad guys have figured out that they can 
bypass ClamAV virus scanning by just sending a .rar file because the 
EPEL ClamAV doesn't support it yet.
Comment 1 Orion Poplawski 2019-10-25 00:41:54 UTC 
As I understand it the rar code is forbidden in Fedora, which is why it is in rpmfusion-nonfree.  But I'm happy to be proven wrong.
Comment 2 Sergio Basto 2019-10-25 00:46:03 UTC 
unar [1] (not unrar) support rar extraction 

[1] 
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unar
Comment 3 Orion Poplawski 2019-10-25 01:56:17 UTC 
I think upstream supporting it via libarchive is more promising.  In any case, this is an upstream issue, so personally I would close it "UPSTREAM", but this is your bug :).

https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12279
Comment 4 Sergio Basto 2019-10-25 02:10:55 UTC 
Thanks, we might consider clamav-nonfree on rpmfusion-nonfre ?
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