Secunia Logo
 
CVE Reference: CVE-2005-1923
NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE.

Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2005-1923

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

IDEFENSE
  http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=275&type=vulnerabilities

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-737


Return to the previous page.