CVE-2005-1923 — Infinite Loop in Anti-virus Clamav

5 documents5 sources
Severity
2.6LOWNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 28.98%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
ClamavClam Anti-virus Clamav
Timeline
PublishedJul 5
Latest updateMay 1

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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 4.9 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianclamav/clamav< 0.86.1+3
▶NVDclam_anti-virus/clamav5 versions+4

Patches

Patch: www.idefense.com ↗Patch: www.idefense.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-9rx9-vrwp-7vq4: The ENSURE_BITS macro in mszipd↗2022-05-01
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OSV
CVE-2005-1923: The ENSURE_BITS macro in mszipd↗2005-07-05
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CVEList
CVE-2005-1923: The ENSURE_BITS macro in mszipd↗2005-06-30
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2005-1923: clamav - The ENSURE_BITS macro in mszipd.c for Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.83, and other ve...↗2005
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