Virus during check out of libreoffice sources

[Mike Kaganski]

On 31.12.2022 15:34, Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote:
> On 31.12.2022 12.56, Janis Pütz wrote:
>> Hi mailing list,
>> I checked out the source from https://git.libreoffice.org/core yesterday.
>>
>> While doing that Windows defender found a virus in the source folder:
>> Exploit:O97M/CVE-2010-3333.PA
>> file: ..\LibreOffice\sw\qa\extras\rtfimport\data\fdo49893-3.rtf
> 
> As advised in the build docs and by autogen.sh, change Windows Defender 
> settings so it ignores the LibreOffice source:
> https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-whitelist-files-windows-defender/

The reason is that the source tree indeed contains some samples of 
threats, that are used to test that LibreOffice is not vulnerable. So 
yes, you are right, there are threats in the source tree; and that is 
not an issue.

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Best regards,
Mike Kaganski