PT-2005-4297 · Cisco+1 · Clamav+1

Published 2005-11-05 · Updated 2011-07-14 · CVE-2005-3501

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ClamAV versions prior to 0.87.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically an infinite loop, by providing a crafted CAB file. This is due to the cabd find function in the libmspack library being called with a zero length.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.87.1, update to version 0.87.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-3501

DSA-887-1

DTSA-21-1

Affected Products

Clamav

Libmspack

References · 19

• 🔥 http://idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=334&type=vulnerabilities · Exploit
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-04.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2005/dsa-887 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-3501 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-3501 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17434 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-3501 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-3501 · Security Note
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=368319 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17559 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2294 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17501 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17451 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:205 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17184 · Vendor Advisory