CVE-2005-3500 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-3500 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 132305 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2005:026, published Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:13:56 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:43 2025