openSUSE Leap 16.0 ClamAV Moderate Denial of Service Advisory 2026-20479-1

This update for clamav fixes the following issues:

Update to clamav 1.5.2:

Security issue:

- CVE-2026-20031: improper error handling in the HTML CSS module when splitting UTF-8 strings can lead to denial of

service conditions via a crafted HTML file (bsc#1259207).

Non security issue:

- Support transactional updates (jsc#PED-14819).

Changelog:

* Fixed a possible infinite loop when scanning some JPEG files by

upgrading affected ClamAV dependency, a Rust image library.

* The CVD verification process will now ignore certificate files

in the CVD certs directory when the user lacks read permissions.

* Freshclam: Fix CLD verification bug with PrivateMirror option.

* Upgraded the Rust bytes dependency to a newer version to

resolve RUSTSEC-2026-0007 advisory.

* Fixed a possible crash caused by invalid pointer alignment on

some platforms.

Patch instructions:

To install this openSUSE security update use the suse recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update...