PT-2005-2878 · Clam Antivirus · Clamav

Published 2005-06-30 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2005-1923

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.6

Low

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) versions 0.83 through 0.85

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU consumption by an infinite loop, via a crafted cabinet (CAB) file. This occurs when the cffile FolderOffset field is set to 0xff, resulting in a zero-length read.

Recommendations For Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) versions 0.83 through 0.85, update to version 0.86 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-1923

DSA-737-1

DTSA-3-1

Affected Products

Clamav

References · 6

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-1923 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1923 · Security Note
• http://idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=275&type=vulnerabilities · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-1923 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2005/dsa-737 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1923 · Vendor Advisory