CVE-2005-1923

NameCVE-2005-1923
DescriptionThe 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-737-1, DTSA-3-1
Debian Bugs316401, 316462

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
clamav (PTS)bullseye0.103.10+dfsg-0+deb11u1fixed
bookworm1.0.7+dfsg-1~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie1.4.1+dfsg-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
clamavsourcesarge0.84-2.sarge.1mediumDSA-737-1
clamavsourceetch0.86.2-4etch1highDTSA-3-1
clamavsource(unstable)0.86.1medium316401, 316462
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