Advisory: Sophos Anti-Virus for Unix - coredump generated during sweep scan on AIX

  • Article ID: 114545
  • Updated: 20 Feb 2012

Issue

During a sweep scan on AIX platforms the following error may be encountered:

Illegal instruction (coredump)

First seen in

Sophos Anti-Virus for Unix 4.71.0

Operating systems
AIX

Cause

This issue was unexpectedly introduced with the release of virus identity (IDE) file ‘fake-esg.ide’.  This identity was released on 02nd November 2011.

What To Do

NOTE: This issue has now been fixed. 

A corrected virus identity file ‘agen-txu.ide’ was released on 4th November 2011. This updated identity file will resolve the coredump issues.

To ensure this new IDE is loaded please update your virus identity files (either via script, or manually).

 
If you need more information or guidance, then please contact technical support.

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