Historically, fixes for such issues would have not been part of a pre-release.  
They would have been added to the public VCS on release day.

You may not have been able to announce the CVEs for some reason, but I don't 
think silently disclosing the fixes was the best thing to have done.

Scott K

On January 26, 2018 9:55:49 PM UTC, "Joel Esler (jesler)" <jes...@cisco.com> 
wrote:
>There are outside issues that prevented us from announcing the CVEs at
>that time.  It's not because we were trying to hide something.
>
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>Joel Esler | Talos: Manager | jes...@cisco.com<mailto:jes...@cisco.com>
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>On Jan 26, 2018, at 2:39 PM, Andreas Schulze
><andreas.schu...@datev.de<mailto:andreas.schu...@datev.de>> wrote:
>
>Am 26.01.2018 um 16:06 schrieb Tobi:
>As far as I understand the release notes of 99.3 its a security fix
>which has nothing to do with former 99.3 beta.
>The former beta now is 0.100
>(http://blog.clamav.net/2018/01/clamav-version-number-adjustment.html).
>So at least for me it makes sense that you have to remove the beta
>first to apply fixed 99.3 version
>I compared 0.99.2 and 0.99.3 and found most of the diffs be present in
>0.99.3beta2
>
>now, as the links to bugzilla.clamav.net<http://bugzilla.clamav.net>
>are public, we see, the issues where known to the developers since
>October/November 2017!
>They published these changes silent as part of "beta2". They discusses
>about CVE at this time!
>This is *not* amazing.
>
>Andreas
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