CHANGELOG.RELEASE

v1.5 | ? ? 2015
[New] added -f|--file-list CLI option to allow user supplied run-time file list for scanning
[New] added -i|--include-regex CLI option for run-time path/file inclusion based on posix-egrep regular expressions
[New] added -x|--exclude-regex CLI option for run-time path/file exclusion based on posix-egrep regular expressions
[New] added support for custom md5/hex signatures with preservation across signature and version updates, files located at:
      sigs/custom.md5.dat
      sigs/custom.hex.dat
[New] custom signatures perform run-time conversion into clamscan compatible format on systems that use clamscan engine
[New] new md5 signature format (md5v2) now includes file size that an md5 hash was derived from in format of:
      hash:filesize:signame
[New] added support for custom cleaner rules to be executed on clean events, file name format of
      "clean/custom.signame"; rules are preserved across signature and version updates
[New] added URL import feature for global configuration overrides using import_config_url variable in conf.maldet
[New] added URL import feature for user custom signatures using import_sigs_md5_url & import_sigs_hex_url variables in conf.maldet
[New] added set of defined exit codes for errored exits(1), successful runs with hits(2), successful runs with no hits(0)
[New] added uninstall.sh script to maldetect installation path
[New] added md5 hash verification of signature and version update downloads
[New] added scan_cpunice option to control CPU priorty value of all scan operations such as find, clamscan etc.. (default 19)
[New] added scan_ionice option to control IO priority value of all scan operations such as find, clamscan etc.. (default 6)
[New] added autoupdate_signatures/autoupdate_version options to control daily cron based signature/version updates
[New] added autoupdate_version_hashed option to control validating hash of maldet executable against upstream version
[New] added support for virtualmin to cron.daily scans
[New] added support for ispmanager to cron.daily scans
[New] added support/detection of clamdscan to leverage memory preloaded signatures and multi-threaded scanning
[New] added scan_find_timeout option which controls the maximum execution time, in seconds, for the find command to generate a file list
[New] added scan_ignore_root option to exclude root owned files from scans
[New] added scan_ignore_user and scan_ignore_group options which allow for the exclusion of specified user and group names from scans
[New] added scan_export_filelist option allowing for daily scan of recent added/modified files to be exported to a static path
[New] added sourcing of of conf.maldet.cron into the cron.daily task which allows for cron specific configurations
[New] added inotify_reloadtime which controls the time at which inotify watcher will reload LMD configuration data
[New] added support for comma space (,) path list on CLI
[New] added reload option for monitor mode to invoke forced configuration reload (-m|--monitor reload)
[Change] modsec.sh has been renamed to hookscan.sh and more generic hook based scanning conventions set
[Change] hookscan.sh will now autodetect if clamdscan is running and perform scans through clamd when appropriate
[Change] hookscan.sh will now provide more verbose output on malware hit events
[Change] hookscan.sh now explicitly disables scanning of temporary paths, ensuring only requested file/paths are scanned
[Change] install.sh now gracefully handles upgrades when monitoring mode is enabled by restarting monitor mode
[Change] improved handling of single file scans which should now behave as expected
[Change] explicitly removed the inclusion of tmpdir paths during single file scans
[Change] automagically remove empty lines from ignore files
[Change] reordered configuration file, expanded on variable descriptions, overall attempt to simplify/streamline conf.maldet
[Change] installer symlinks LMD signatures into known/existing ClamAV paths to ensure signatures are loaded into memory by clamd
[Change] installer issues SIGUSR2 to any running clamd processes to force reload of signature databases
[Change] cron.daily signature updates issue SIGUSR2 to any running clamd processes to force reload of siganture databases
[Change] cron.daily signature/version updates sleep random interval 1-999 secs before contacting upstream rfxn.com servers to reduce cdn load
[Change] modified clamscan database path checks to support cPanel >=11.40 RPM clamAV connector RPM's
[Change] modified location of statistical data files from tmpdir to sessdir making tmpdir a stateless path that can be purged at anytime
[Change] when clamscan engine is enabled scan_max_filesize value is now set dynamically based on the largest known file in the md5v2 signature set
[Change] modified e-mail based alerts to source from an e-mail template file at .email.template
[Change] clamscan execution command logged to logs/clamscan_log to make debugging clamscan errors easier
[Change] clamscan stderr/stdout output now pipes to logs/clamscan_log and if clamscan returns an error code (2), flag with an appropriate
         error message to check the clamscan_log file for more details
[Change] ambiguous variables renamed for better consistency and more logical naming conventions, documented in CHANGELOG.VARIABLES
[Change] modified sessionid values to derive from YYMMDD instead of MMDDYY and adjusted human readable report START/END date to include year value
[Change] modified view_report output to sort output on unix time of scan start times
[Change] signature updates now download as a single file tgz to reduce bandwidth usage and request load on upstream cdn
[Change] modified signature update function for additional error checking and better handling of zero sized signature downloads
[Change] modified version update function for additional error checking and better handling of zero sized file downloads
[Change] modified '-e|--report list' output include total files scanned, hits and cleaned results, reversed output order and
         consistent column spacing (column -t)
[Change] moved tlog executable out of inotify/ path, changed inotify_log path to logs/, removed inotify directory
[Change] created logs/ path, moved event_log path to logs/
[Change] modified previous wget timeout values of 3s timeout & 3 retries to 5s timeout & 3 retries
[Change] wget timeout and retry attempts are now configurable through internals.conf wget_timeout & wget_retries variables
[Change] removed file type check on native LMD stage2 hex scanner which was part of legacy code and no longer needed
[Change] removed verbose progressive scan output for native LMD scanner as performance penalty was unreasonable
[Change] replaced usage of tmpwatch with find in cron.daily for temporary path pruning
[Change] removed internals.conf from version check hashing for installation version updates (-d|--update-ver)
[Change] cron.daily now tests for directadmin and scans appropriate user domain paths
[Change] directory checkout uploads limited to maximum of 50 files
[Change] added tmpdir_paths option to explicitly scan known temporary (world-write) paths on all scan types
[Change] updated example ModSecurity rule in README file for compatibility with ModSec 2.7 which now requires
         every rule, even hooks, to have a rule ID
[Change] -r|--recent scan now uses mtime and ctime, instead of just mtime, to find recently changed/modified files
[Change] LMD v1.4.2+ will now use the new md5 v2 signature format and make direct requests on signature
         updates to the appropriate upstream file (md5v2.dat); old format, md5 v1, preserved in signature
         releases for compatibility of pre-1.4.2 releases
[Change] modified hexfifo.pl & hexstring.pl to accept user supplied value for path to hex signature file
[Change] install.sh now deletes LMD backup installation copies older than 30days
[Change] references to www.rfxn.com for remote signature and version updates now query cdn.rfxn.com
[Change] cleaner rules are now executable scripts in which infected files are passed as an argument ($1)
         allowing for a diverse set of cleaner rule options apart from the previous sed only setup
[Change] converted current cleaner rules to new executable scripts format
[Change] checkout uploads now store malware in the filename format of (hostid is an anonymous md5 identifier):
         $hostid.$RANDOM.$filename.[ascii|bin]
[Change] inotifywait from inotify-tools is no longer packaged with LMD, it should be downloaded in binary or
         source form from:
         https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/wiki/
         binary versions are also available from dag repo at:
         http://pkgs.repoforge.org/inotify-tools/
[Change] internals.conf will now attempt to detect the path to inotifywait from $PATH
[Change] inotify max_user_watches was static set to 128, now configurable with inotify_user_watches
[Change] inotify values for max_user_instances|watches will first be checked and only modified if the existing
         values are lower than what maldet requires
[Change] modified error output for missing inotifywait to display URL to inotify-tools github page
[Change] modified default scan_hexdepth value to 65k as a result of improved scan efficiency in native scanner engine
[Change] added backwards compatibility for all pre-v1.5 configuration options however they should be considered deprecated and will be removed in the future
[Change] expanded on EICAR test signature support for native LMD scanner engine to better facilitate testing of functional installed signature set
[Change] added scan/find elapsed execution time values to scan report and cli output
[Change] relocated internal files into $inspath/internals/
[Change] created generic clean_exit() function to handle file cleanups on all fatal exist and replaced many random rm -f calls with it
[Change] moved all pre/post actions into a prerun() and postrun() functions
[Change] moved statistical logging to record_hits() function
[Change] quarantine() function borrows stat file data from record_hits to reduce calls to stat
[Change] more extensible cleaner rules with additional input arguments:
         $1 file path, $2 signame, $3 owner.group, $4 file_chmod, $5 file_size, $6 file_md5
[Change] added additional fields file_size and file_md5 to quarantine info file
[Change] added caching support for import_config_url with import_config_expire to control expiry interval
[Change] stricter handling of variable definitions which contain dynamic variable values
[Change] modified daily cron recent range from 2 to 1 as mtime/ctime values are n*24h, as such value of 1 is equal to two days
[Change] modified daily cron to use comma spaced path lists instead of multiple maldet executions
[Change] changed quarantine malware cleaning default value to 0
[Change] use of clamav engine output statement now more verbose
[Change] previously LMD only linked clamav signatures into clamav data paths on install, this is now done after each signature update
[Fix] quote syntax error in scan.etpl
[Fix] help output for -k|--kill-monitor incorrectly referred to --kill instead of --kill-monitor
[Fix] inotify_user_instances was defined in internals.conf incorrectly as inotify_user_watches
[Fix] tlog executable was not being set +x during installation
[Fix] install.sh was attempt to create default event_log while the parent directory did not yet exist
[Fix] invalid find expression was causing find to return directory paths on recent scans
[Fix] OSTYPE env checking was not properly matching on all FreeBSD versions
[Fix] renamed alert() to genalert() to avoid builtin function conflict on Ubuntu
[Fix] corrected -r|--recent scan mode trap on SIGINT (CTRL+C) not calling trap_exit() for cleanup actions
[Fix] modified native LMD scanner to better leverage bash internal field separator for handling of paths with spaces
[Fix] modified all calls to system executables to use paths derived from $PATH
[Fix] suppressed ignore signature count being displayed when calling with --modsec
[Fix] set modsec.sh to use /bin/bash as interpreter instead of /bin/sh for compatibility
[Fix] removed MAILTO & SHELL variables from crons which were causing crond 'bad minute' errors on some systems
[Fix] quoted extension values from ignore_file_ext input to provide consistent behavior
[Fix] added trailing slash '/' to all cron.daily scan (find) paths to properly handle symlinked paths
[Fix] install.sh now links LMD clamav signatures into all clamav data paths it finds instead of just the first
[Fix] clean() function was improperly exiting after first file hit clean attempt and ignoring all other hits
[Fix] set interpreter in uninstall.sh to /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh for better compatibility
[Fix] modified psa scan paths to pull in top level and sub domain content