tags 290248 +upstream
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thanks

This one time, at band camp, Antonio Fiol said:
> I am using clamd in STREAM mode in every case.
> 
> I have found a way of fooling the scanner to give a false
> negative:
> 
> If the user sends a BIG file (bigger than the limit) with a virus near
> the end (outside the limit), it will get cut, and the virus will not be
> found.
> 
> IMO, the scanner should detect this as an exceptional situation, and
> react by saying:
> stream: ERROR:Size-limit-exceeded FOUND
> 
> Or any other informative string.

I agree this is reasonable, at least as far as this has been their way
of handling other failures (Encrypted.Zip, etc).  Your request has been
forwarded upstream.
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