CVE-2005-3239

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-10-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The OLE2 unpacker in clamd in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.87-1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a DOC file with an invalid property tree, which triggers an infinite recursion in the ole2_walk_property_tree function.

Affected products

Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: .

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=333566
http://secunia.com/advisories/17184
http://secunia.com/advisories/17448
http://secunia.com/advisories/17451
http://secunia.com/advisories/17501
http://secunia.com/advisories/17559
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015154
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=368319
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-887
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-04.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:205
http://www.osvdb.org/20536

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