CVE-2005-1923 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via infinite loop in ClamAV by submitting a malformed CAB file.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2005-1923?
CVE-2005-1923 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav, published on 30 Jun 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-1923?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Clam Anti-Virus Clamav.
How do I fix CVE-2005-1923?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2005-1923 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-1923 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav
- CVE-2008-1100 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2008-0318 Integer overflow in n/a
- CVE-2007-6337 Unspecified vulnerability in the bzip2 decompression algorithm in nsis/bzlib_private.h in ClamAV before 0.92 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors.
- CVE-2007-3023 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2005-3587 Memory corruption in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1923, GHSA-9rx9-vrwp-7vq4.