2.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2005-1923

Published: 05/07/2005 Updated: 05/09/2008
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.6 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 4.9
VMScore: 231
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The ENSURE_BITS macro in mszipd.c for Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.83, and other versions vefore 0.86, allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption by infinite loop) via a cabinet (CAB) file with the cffile_FolderOffset field set to 0xff, which causes a zero-length read.

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clam anti-virus clamav 0.83

clam anti-virus clamav 0.84_rc2

clam anti-virus clamav 0.85.1

clam anti-virus clamav 0.84_rc1

clam anti-virus clamav 0.85

Vendor Advisories

A number of potential remote denial of service vulnerabilities have been identified in ClamAV In addition to the four issues identified by CVE ID above, there are fixes for issues in libclamav/cvdc and libclamav/messagec Together, these issues could allow a carefully crafted message to crash a ClamAV scanner or exhaust various resources on the ...