ClamAV 1.5.4

What's new in 1.5.4

ClamAV 1.5.4 is a patch release with the following fixes:
- CVE-2026-20337:
Fixed ZIP catalogue capacity tracking that could write beyond a heap
allocation while indexing local file headers.
This issue affects ClamAV 1.5.0 through 1.5.3.
The fix is included in 1.5.4.
Thank you to Kevin Stubbings of the GitHub Security Lab team for identifying
this issue.
- CVE-2026-20345:
Fixed an indexing error while converting GPT partition names that could
read or write beyond a stack-allocated partition entry.
This issue affects ClamAV 0.98.2 through 1.5.3.
The fix is included in 1.4.6 and 1.5.4.
Thank you to Atuin - Automated Vulnerability Discovery Engine, Tianchu Chen
of Tencent Xuanwu Lab for identifying this issue.
- CVE-2026-20339:
Fixed an integer overflow in the PESpin unpacker that could allocate an
undersized buffer and then write beyond it while rebuilding a PE file.
This issue affects ClamAV 0.90 through 1.5.3.
The fix is included in 1.4.6 and 1.5.4.
Thank you to Feng Xue and, independently, Yazdan Soltani for identifying
this issue.
- CVE-2026-20338:
Fixed ownership handling while merging ZIP catalogue records that could
cause an invalid free while scanning a malformed archive.
This issue affects ClamAV 1.5.0 through 1.5.3.
The fix is included in 1.5.4.
Thank you to Daggolu Rakesh and, independently, Yazdan Soltani for
identifying this issue.
- CVE-2026-20346:
Fixed an integer underflow in the PDF parser that could cause a crash while
reading a malformed hex string.
This issue affects ClamAV 1.4.5 and earlier, and ClamAV 1.5.0 through
1.5.3.
The fix is included in 1.4.6 and 1.5.4.
Thank you to Tristan (@TristanInSec) for identifying this issue.
- CVE-2026-20347:
Fixed undefined behavior and integer overflow in the Mach-O parser that
could cause a crash while scanning a malformed Mach-O file.
This issue affects ClamAV 1.4.5 and earlier, and ClamAV 1.5.0 through
1.5.3.
The fix is included in 1.4.6 and 1.5.4.
Thank you to Tristan (@TristanInSec) for identifying this issue.
- CVE-2026-20348:
Fixed XAR parser size handling that could request an excessive allocation
or exceed scan limits while decompressing a malformed table of contents.
This issue affects ClamAV 0.98.1 through 1.5.3.
The fix is included in 1.4.6 and 1.5.4.
Thank you to leduckhuong for identifying this issue.
- CVE-2025-8088:
Adopted the upstream UnRAR project fix in ClamAV's bundled UnRAR library. …

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