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#33127 PHP File Scanner keeps flagging Akeeba Backup's QueryException.php; checksum unchanged

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Latest post by on Friday, 03 July 2020 17:17 CDT

Friday, 29 May 2020 14:26 CDT

keenmouse
For the past few days, my nightly PHP File Scanner report has been saying that these two files have been modified, but they haven't been. The checksums have not changed and neither have the modification dates.

administrator/components/com_akeeba/BackupEngine/Driver/QueryException.php
administrator/components/com_akeeba/BackupEngine/Driver/Queryexception.php


This is only happening on one site out of several where I have both Akeeba extensions installed.

Monday, 01 June 2020 03:42 CDT

tampe125
Hello,

that's pretty strange, since such file contains only few lines of code.
Are you calculating a diff while performing the scan?
If you manually run another scan, does the file become flagged again?

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Monday, 01 June 2020 14:07 CDT

keenmouse
Manually running a scan flags the same two files again. This also started happening on another site on Friday. On a hunch, I tried updating Akeeba Backup to 7.1.4 on a third site where this hasn't been happening, and it started happening there too.

I was not calculating diffs, but turned it on to see what the result would be. Here's what I get:

@@ -1,1 +1,21 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Akeeba Engine
+ *
+ * @package   akeebaengine
+ * @copyright Copyright (c)2006-2020 Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos / Akeeba Ltd
+ * @license   GNU General Public License version 3, or later
+ */
 
+namespace Akeeba\Engine\Driver;
+
+
+
+use Exception;
+
+class QueryException extends Exception
+{
+}
+
+;
+

Tuesday, 02 June 2020 02:57 CDT

tampe125
Ok got it.
You can safely ignore it: we added that new file in the latest version, since in the previous one it had capital letters in the wrong place, causing the backup engine to fail on case sensitive filesystems.
So long story short: don't worry, that's fine.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Tuesday, 02 June 2020 14:58 CDT

keenmouse
Oh, I think I get it. Admin Tools thinks it's the same file because it sees the filename as the same due to case insensitivity, but thinks that the file has been modified because the contents of the two files are slightly different (blank lines and semicolon at the end)?

I hope this will be fixed by making Admin Tools understand filename case sensitivity rather than by making the Akeeba Backup files identical. It seems like perhaps the filename insensitivity could be exploited.

Wednesday, 03 June 2020 02:36 CDT

tampe125
Yes, I'm going to investigate on it, thanks for the report

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

🇮🇹Italian: native 🇬🇧English: good • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Rome (UTC +1)
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Friday, 03 July 2020 17:17 CDT

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Edited by on 2020-07-03 17:17 CDT

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