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openSUSE: 2025:0327-1 important: clamav buffer overflow & DoS

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Calendar Grey February 3, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Crucial patch released for clamav addressing various vulnerabilities and enhancing overall defense mechanisms. Find further information here.
An update that solves six vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has two security fixes can now be installed.

Description

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

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-327=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-327=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-327=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* clamav-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* libfreshclam3-debuginfo-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* libclamav12-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* clamav-devel-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* libclammspack0-debuginfo-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* clamav-debuginfo-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* libfreshclam3-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* libclamav12-debuginfo-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* clamav-debugsource-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* libclammspack0-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* clamav-milter-debuginfo-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* clamav-milter-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (noarch)

* clamav-docs-html-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* clamav-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* libfreshclam3-debuginfo-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* libclamav12-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* clamav-devel-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* libclammspack0-debuginfo-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* clamav-debuginfo-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* libfreshclam3-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* libclamav12-debuginfo-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

* clamav-debugsource-1.4.2-150600.18.6.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1102840

* bsc#1103032

* bsc#1180296

* bsc#1202986

* bsc#1211594

* bsc#1214342

* bsc#1232242

* bsc#1236307

* jsc#PED-4596

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14679.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20197.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-20380.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-20505.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-20506.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-20128.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102840

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1103032

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180296

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202986

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211594

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214342

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1232242

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1236307

* https://jira.suse.com/login.jsp?permissionViolation=true&os_destination=%2Fbrowse%2FPED-4596&page_caps=&user_role=

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:0327-1
Release Date: 2025-02-03T09:39:44Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

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