Vulnerability in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav
CVE-2005-3500
The tnef_attachment function in tnef.c for Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.87.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and memory exhaustion) via a crafted value in a CAB file that causes ClamAV to repeatedly scan the same block.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.040 (90.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 90.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.040 · newest: 0.040 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Clam Anti-Virus Clamav — versions 0.15, 0.20, 0.21
References
- secunia.com/advisories/17451 (third-party-advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-04.xml (vendor-advisory)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/152 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/17501 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/17184 (third-party-advisory)
- www.osvdb.org/20483 (vdb-entry)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/17559 (third-party-advisory)
- www.idefense.com/application/poi/display (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/15316 (vdb-entry)