Denial of Service Vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.83 and Earlier Versions

CVE-2005-1923 · LOW Severity

AV:N/AC:H/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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