ClamAV 1.5.2 is a patch release with the following fixes:
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CVE-2026-20031:
Fixed an error handling bug in the HTML file parser that may crash the program
and cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.This issue was introduced in version 1.1.0.
The fix is included in 1.5.2 and 1.4.4. -
Fixed a possible infinite loop when scanning some JPEG files by upgrading
affected ClamAV dependency, a Rust image library.Unfortunately, this change requires a newer Rust compiler for ClamAV.
The minimum Rust version for ClamAV 1.4.3 was 1.85.1.
The minimum Rust version for ClamAV 1.4.4 is now 1.87.0. -
Fixed a possible crash on Windows when scanning some files while using the
LeaveTemporaryFilesandTemporaryDirectoryfeatures. -
The CVD verification process will now ignore certificate files in the CVD
certs directory when the user lacks read permissions. -
Freshclam: Fixed CLD verification bug with
PrivateMirroroption. -
Upgraded the Rust
bytesdependency to a newer version to resolve the
RUSTSEC-2026-0007 advisory. -
Fixed a possible crash caused by invalid pointer alignment on some platforms.
This fix is courtesy of Hsuan-Ming Chen at Synology PSIRT.