v0.0.2

The scanner, rebuilt around one streaming scan; three new projects (a browser
file viewer, image decoders, a perceptual image hash); and a long run of
fuzzing that fixed more than a hundred bounds and decoding bugs.

Highlights

• One scan for every input, at any size. A file, stdin, a FIFO, INSTREAM,
  ICAP and HTTP all go through the same pipeline. A file over
  --max-object-bytes (256 MiB by default) now gets the full scan (wildcard and
  logical signatures, PCRE, YARA, bytecode, carving, heuristics), read through
  an 8 MiB block cache; it used to get a literal-and-hash pass only. What needs
  the whole object in memory (PE structure, Authenticode, packers, YARA's pe,
  elf and dotnet modules, containers read whole) makes such a file
  LIMITS-EXCEEDED, unless something is found. --all-matches and
  ALLMATCHSCAN list every detection at any size.
• Faster. One index of signature literals replaces the automatons; a
  signature with a narrow offset window is checked where it can start; whole-file
  digests are computed once and only when a signature can use them; objects read
  through the block cache are read far fewer times. A prebuilt database is
  smaller and loads faster.
• DWG and DXF drawings are scanned (R13 to 2018, ASCII and binary): the
  files an OLE2FRAME embeds are extracted and scanned.
• @exav/viewer, a new npm package: a file viewer for the browser (PDF,
  images, DWG and DXF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV, IFC and STL models, video,
  audio, archives), each engine loaded on first use, with a sandboxed mode that
  opens each file in its own <iframe sandbox>. Demo at exav.org/viewer/demo/.
• exav-render, memory-safe decoders for what to draw: TIFF, BMP and other
  raster images, JPEG 2000, JBIG2, fax, DWG, DXF, IFC, STL. exav-imagehash,
  a crate and a command: perceptual image hashes, with presets equal to
  sigtool --fuzzy-img and Python imagehash.phash; the scanner's fuzzy_img#
  now goes through it.
• A Helm chart (deploy/helm/exav-chart) and a Kubernetes guide, by
  Bastien Ogier.
• exav-unpack has unzip's command line: -l, -t, -p, -d, -x,
  -o, -n, -P and the rest mean what they mean to Info-ZIP unzip 6.00,
  with its exit statuses. It extracts every format the library reads, restores
  times, modes and symlinks, never writes through a link, and reads a split ZIP
  (.z01) or a RAR volume set from any part.
• Releases carry exav-unpack, exav-grep, exav-pe-emu and exav-imagehash
  beside exav. exav.org is organised by product.

Breaking changes

• Removed: --max-extracted-bytes (it stops the run with a message naming the
  change: a scan holds 1 GiB, 400M under --clamav-compat, and
  --max-process-bytes lowers it); --build-shard-bytes; exav-core's
  scan_stream (use scan_seekable); exav's checksums feature; the
  exav-unpack list and extract subcommands (-l, -d DIR).
• Renamed: environment variables without a flag are EXAV_DEBUG_*
  (EXAV_BC_TRACE is EXAV_DEBUG_BC_TRACE, and so on); the systemd unit is
  exav.service (it was exav-clamd.service).
• The daemon's signals match clamd's: SIGUSR2 reloads the signatures and
  SIGHUP reopens the --log file. SIGUSR2 used to kill the process.
• A stream that ends before its terminator is answered ERROR on INSTREAM
  and EXINSTREAM. A signature path that loads nothing is an error.
• YARA detections are named YARA.<rule> outside --clamav-compat. A YARA
  pattern keeps at most a million matches, as yara-x does.
• --max-process-bytes also lowers --max-object-bytes to a quarter of the
  memory a scan gets: a file past it is LIMITS-EXCEEDED, not out of memory.
• A scan that fails behind the ICAP listener is a block.
• The published image uses Docker mediatypes, so podman honours its
  HEALTHCHECK (by Nastaliss). This drops the buildx provenance attestation.
  The 0.0.1 tags are OCI.

Added

• --max-pcre-bytes, --min-scan-bytes (default 6) and
  --max-pe-emulation-steps; --partial-as password-protected=found reports
  any encrypted member as Heuristics.Encrypted.*, as ClamAV's
  --alert-encrypted does; the image-hash and phishing features, on by
  default; .msu databases under --detect pua.
• Decoding: encrypted RAR with the caller's passwords (headers encrypted
  included), RAR 7 headers, ZIP Shrink, Reduce, Implode and PPMd members, NSIS
  with bzip2, ZIP members found by their local header, ZIP64 included.
• A guide to sizing a server, with the flags for a 4 GB host; a health check in
  the Compose and Kubernetes examples; make miri.
• exav-unpack: Prescan and detect_prescanned, and a modification time on
  MemberMeta and Entry.

Changed

• Matching no longer copies an object whole, and PCRE no longer scans a copy of
  it. Bytecode follows ClamAV 1.4.3 in four more places, and its triggers are
  evaluated with the object's container.
• A signature reload lets scans in progress finish. A DMG is walked without
  decompressing its whole disk.
• A compressed stream damaged part way keeps what was decoded before the damage
  and is reported as damaged, not lost or complete. exav-unpack-wasm's
  list() decodes nothing it can avoid.
• Dependencies: bincode (RUSTSEC-2025-0141) and serde are gone from
  exav-unpack; the RustCrypto crates move to their current generation
  (digest 0.11, cipher 0.5); ureq 3 for the http features, which now
  follows the HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY environment;
  tlsh2 1.x, ext4-view 1.0 and lzma-rust2 0.21 with their upstream
  fixes; the bzip2 decoder is vendored from bzip2-rs with a fix.

Fixed

Found by fuzzing, an arithmetic audit and the ClamAV comparison. The bugs that
could change a verdict:

• A decompression or parsing bomb now stops at a budget. About a hundred
  header numbers added or multiplied unchecked are refused: the disk-image
  readers (VMDK, QCOW2, VHDX, NTFS, WIM, ext, FAT, partitions), CHM, DWG
  polylines and hatches, 7z folders, carving, signature files and databases
  past u32. ARC, ZOO and .Z decoders no longer allocate without limit.
• A damaged or cut-short member is never OK. Truncated bzip2, Zstandard,
  xz, UPX, NSIS, 7z PPMd, DMG and EGG data, a RAR member failing its CRC, and a
  member cut off by the end of the file are reported as damaged or
  UNSCANNABLE.
• PCRE subsignatures match as ClamAV's PCRE2 does: bytes above 0x7F,
  offsets, the g flag, \b and \B beside a high byte, and a repeat that can
  match nothing.
• RAR: encrypted headers and stored members, the window of each member in
  an archive, the x86, Itanium and ARM filters, empty members in a solid group,
  a volume set missing a volume, a volume numbered 65,535 or 2^64 - 1.
• ZIP: members found only by their local header, with other bytes before
  the archive, in ZIP64 form, compressed with an unknown method, with LZMA or
  Zstandard and cut short. --all-matches with --alert-exceeds-max dropped
  the alert on a decompression bomb and reported a clean scan.
• Performance and portability: a YARA xor(1-255) pattern cost 255
  comparisons per position; a scan time limit above 100,000,000 seconds was
  refused by macOS and left no limit.
• Daemon: the watch of its signature source missed changes, so new
  signatures were not loaded; a worker stopped mid-job answers with ERROR
  instead of closing the connection; scanning a URL took a server that answered
  a range request with the whole object (200, not 206) as the range, and is
  an error now.
• Emulator and decoders: a panic on a packed file with a bad import
  directory; the x86 decoder sized UMONITOR's register by the operand size;
  a PE whose parse failed over one malformed directory lost the rest.
• Documents: PDF encryption (revision 4, 40-bit RC4), encrypted DMG and
  workbooks, VBA projects, lenient compound files, Ole10Native objects, GIF
  extension blocks, HTML and text signatures, JPEG checks under
  --detect broken-media, and fuzzy_img# hashes now computed as ClamAV 1.4.6
  does.
• An object whose first read failed made the safetensors sniff panic.

0.0.1

First public release