Upstream information

CVE-2005-1923 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having low severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 2.6
Vector AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 91594 [VERIFIED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 clamav Analysis
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 clamav Analysis
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 clamav Analysis
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 clamav Analysis
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 clamav Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 clamav Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 clamav Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS clamav Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 clamav Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS clamav Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS clamav Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 clamav Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS clamav Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 clamav Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS clamav Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS clamav Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS clamav Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 clamav Analysis


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:29:54 2013
CVE page last modified: Sat Aug 22 21:17:54 2026