CVE-2005-3500

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: 0.15, 0.20, 0.21, 0.22, 0.23, 0.24 (+27)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17184
http://secunia.com/advisories/17434
http://secunia.com/advisories/17451
http://secunia.com/advisories/17501
http://secunia.com/advisories/17559
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/152
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.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=333&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:205

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