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]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:29:54 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:40 2025