SUSE-SU-2025:0328-1

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 'clenginesetclcbvba()' 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 encrypted with the default password.
• Overhauled the implementation of the all-match feature.
• Added a new callback to the public API for inspecting file content during a scan at each layer of archive extraction.
• Added a new function to the public API for unpacking CVD signature archives.
• The option to build with an external TomsFastMath library has been removed. ClamAV requires non-default build options for TomsFastMath to support bigger floating point numbers.

• For a full list of changes see the release announcements:

  • https://blog.clamav.net/2022/11/clamav-100-lts-released.html
  • https://blog.clamav.net/2022/05/clamav-01050-01043-01036-released.html

  • https://blog.clamav.net/2021/09/clamav-01040-released.html

    • Build clamd with systemd support.

    • CVE-2023-20197: Fixed a possible denial of service vulnerability in the HFS+ file parser. (bsc#1214342)

    • CVE-2018-14679: Fixed that an issue was discovered in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha. There isan off-by-one error in the CHM PMGI/PMGL chunk number validity checks, which could lead to denial of service (uninitialized da (bsc#1103032)

    • Package huge .html documentation in a separate subpackage.

    • Update to 0.103.7 (bsc#1202986)

• Zip parser: tolerate 2-byte overlap in file entries

• Fix bug with logical signature Intermediates feature
• Update to UnRAR v6.1.7
• Patch UnRAR: allow skipping files in solid archives

• Patch UnRAR: limit dict winsize to 1GB

  • Use a split-provides for clamav-milter instead of recommending it.
  • Package clamav-milter in a subpackage
  • Remove virus signatures upon uninstall
  • Check for database existence before starting clamd
  • Restart clamd when it exits
  • Don't daemonize freshclam, but use a systemd timer instead to trigger updates