CVE-2005-1923

N/A
Published: June 30, 2005 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:13 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorClamav

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (2)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-737
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=275&type=vulnerabilities

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other

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