Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.5 for Proxy Server: Maintenance Pack 3 Critical Fix 1 (version 5.5.86.1) release

The article concerns Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.5 for Proxy Server.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.5 for Proxy Server: Maintenance Pack 3 Critical Fix 1 (version 5.5.86.1) was released on July 3, 2012.

Version 5.5.86.1 includes the following changes:

• The antivirus kernel has been updated.
• New parameters added:
  • MaxReqLengthAction. Action on the object, the size of which exceeds the set maximum size (MaxReqLength).
  • PartialResponseAction. Action in case a server response containing a part of the object is detected.
  • PartialRequestAction. Action in case a request for delivery of an object part is detected.
  • ReqModeServiceUrl. ICAP service URL for checking the stream of ICAP requests.
  • RespModeServiceUrl. ICAP service URL for checking the stream of ICAP responses. 
• List of supported operating systems has been updated.
• The -x key for the keepup2date component removed.
• The following application issues have been fixed:
  • Memory leak during the anti-virus scan has been fixed.
  • Improved functioning in AnswerMode=Partial. Squid does not report an error if file transfer is interrupted after the detection of a threat in the transferred file.
  • Fixed the following licensemanager error: the description of the licensing subsystem errors was not displayed on the terminal.
  • Added support for Ubuntu 12.04.

Installation and upgrade

To install the application from scratch, use the command that corresponds to your OS:

• for Linux/RPM:
• # rpm -i <package>.rpm
• for Linux/Debian (32 bit):
• # dpkg -i <package>.deb
• for Linux/Debian (64 bit):
• # dpkg -i --force-architecture <package>.deb
• for FreeBSD:
• # pkg_add <package>.tgz

Version 5.5 MP2 (5.5.62) can be upgraded using a package handling system available in your OS.

Known issues and solutions

• Kaspersky Anti-Virus integration with Squid 3.1.6 is not supported. For details, see http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3011. 
• Upon restart of Kaspersky Anti-Virus after a crash on FreeBSD, the following error message may appear: “Exception() Cannot create semaphore: No space left on device:28 Ipc::ShmLocker::ShmLocker()”. To fix the issue:
  1. Run the command:
  2. ipcrm –W
  2. Make sure no kluser’s semaphores are present in the system using the command:
  3. ipcs -a
  3. Restart the application.
• When installing on Ubuntu, you may see the following warning at the license agreement step:
• "/opt/kaspersky/kav4proxy/share/doc/LICENSE" may be a binary file. See it anyway?
• Ignore this warning.

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