SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : clamav (SUSE-SU-2019:3053-1)

This update for clamav fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : CVE-2019-12625: Fixed a ZIP bomb issue by adding detection and heuristics for zips with overlapping files bsc1144504. CVE-2019-12900: Fixed an out-of-bounds write in decompress.c with many selectors bsc1149458. Non-securit...

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