🛡️ SUSE-SU-2025:0327-1 — clamav (CVE-2025-20128 +5 more)

Security update for clamav

This update for clamav fixes the following issues:

New version 1.4.2:

• CVE-2025-20128, bsc#1236307: Fixed a possible buffer overflow

read bug in the OLE2 file parser that could cause a

denial-of-service (DoS) condition.

• Start clamonacc with --fdpass to avoid errors due to

clamd not being able to access user files. (bsc#1232242)

• New version 1.4.1:
• https://blog.clamav.net/2024/09/clamav-141-132-107-and-010312-security.html
• New version 1.4.0:
• Added support for extracting ALZ archives.
• Added support for extracting LHA/LZH archives.
• Added the ability to disable image fuzzy hashing, if needed.

For context, image fuzzy hashing is a detection mechanism

useful for identifying malware by matching images included with

the malware or phishing email/document.

• https://blog.clamav.net/2024/08/clamav-140-feature-release-and-clamav.html
• New version 1.3.2:
• CVE-2024-20506: Changed the logging module to disable following

symlinks on Linux and Unix systems so as to prevent an attacker

with existing access to the 'clamd' or 'freshclam' services from

using a symlink to corrupt system files.

• CVE-2024-20505: Fixed a possible out-of-bounds read bug in the PDF

file parser that could cause a denial-of-service condition.

• Removed unused Python modules from freshclam tests including

deprecated 'cgi' module that is expected to cause test failures in

Python 3.13.

• Fix unit test caused by expiring signing certificate.
• Fixed a build issue on Windows with newer versions of Rust. Also

upgraded GitHub Actions imports to fix CI failures.

• Fixed an unaligned pointer dereference issue on select architectures.
• Fixes to Jenkins CI pipeline.
• New Version: 1.3.1:
• CVE-2024-20380: Fixed a possible crash in the HTML file parser

that could cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.

• Updated select Rust dependencies to the latest versions.
• Fixed a bug causing some text to be truncated when converting

from UTF-16.

• Fixed assorted complaints identified by Coverity static

analysis.

• Fixed a bug causing CVDs downloaded by the DatabaseCustomURL
• Added the new 'valhalla' database name to the list of optional

databases in preparation for future work.

• New version: 1.3.0:
• Added support for extracting and scanning attachments found in

Microsoft OneNote section files. OneNote parsing will be

enabled by default, but may be optionally disabled.

• Added file type recognition for compiled Python ('.pyc') files.
• Improved support for decrypting PDFs with empty passwords.
• Fixed a warning when scanning some HTML files.
• ClamOnAcc: Fixed an infinite loop when a watched directory

does not exist.

• ClamOnAcc: Fixed an infinite loop when a file has been deleted

before a scan.

• New version: 1.2.0:
• Added support for extracting Universal Disk Format (UDF)

partitions.

• Added an option to customize the size of ClamAV's clean file

cache.

• Raised the MaxScanSize limit so the total amount of data

scanned when scanning a file or archive may exceed 4 gigabytes.

• Added ability for Freshclam to use a client certificate PEM

file and a private key PEM file for authentication to a private

mirror.

• Fix an issue extracting files from ISO9660 partitions where the

files are listed in the plain ISO tree and there also exists an

empty Joliet tree.

• PID and socket are now located under /run/clamav/clamd.pid and

/run/clamav/clamd.sock .

• bsc#1211594: Fixed an issue where ClamAV does not abort the

signature load process after partially loading an invalid

signature.

• New version 1.1.0:
• https://blog.clamav.net/2023/05/clamav-110-released.html
• Added the ability to extract images embedded in HTML CSS

<style> blocks.

• Updated to Sigtool so that the '--vba' option will extract VBA

code from Microsoft Office documents the same way that

libclamav extracts VBA.

• Added a new option --fail-if-cvd-older-than=days to clamscan

and clamd, and FailIfCvdOlderThan to clamd.conf

• Added a new function 'cl_cvdgetage()' to the libclamav API.
• Added a new function 'cl_engine_set_clcb_vba()' to the

libclamav API.

• bsc#1180296: Integrate clamonacc as a service.
• New version 1.0.1 LTS (including changes in 0.104 and 0.105):
• As of ClamAV 0.104, CMake is required to build ClamAV.
• As of ClamAV 0.105, Rust is now required to compile ClamAV.
• Increased the default limits for file and scan size:
• MaxScanSize: 100M to 400M
• MaxFileSize: 25M to 100M
• StreamMaxLength: 25M to 100M
• PCREMaxFileSize: 25M to 100M
• MaxEmbeddedPE: 10M to 40M
• MaxHTMLNormalize: 10M to 40M
• MaxScriptNormalize: 5M to 20M
• MaxHTMLNoTags: 2M to 8M
• Added image fuzzy hash subsignatures for logical signatures.
• Support for decrypting read-only OLE2-based XLS files that are

en