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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 ClamAV Moderate DoS 2026-1324-1 CVE-2026-20031

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Calendar Grey April 14, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE security advisory addresses a moderate risk issue in clamav update with Denial of Service vulnerability.
An update that solves one vulnerability, contains one feature and has two security fixes can now be installed.

Summary

## This update for clamav fixes the following issues: Update to clamav 1.5.2: * 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). * Require main and library packages to be of the same version and release (bsc#1258072). 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

References

* bsc#1221954

* bsc#1258072

* bsc#1259207

* jsc#PED-14819

Cross-

* CVE-2026-20031

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2026-20031 ( SUSE ): 6.9

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2026-20031 ( SUSE ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

* CVE-2026-20031 ( NVD ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that solves one vulnerability, contains one feature and has two

security fixes can now be installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-20031.html

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:1324-1
Release Date: 2026-04-14T13:15:34Z
Rating: moderate

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