CVE-2005-1923

The ENSURE_BITS macro in mszipd.c for Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.83, and other versions vefore 0.86, allows remote attackers 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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 2.6 Low

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2005-07-05

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Clamav (Clam Anti-virus)

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-737
• http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=275&type=vulnerabilities