CVE-2005-3501

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The cabd_find function in cabd.c of the libmspack library (mspack) for Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.87.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted CAB file that causes cabd_find to be called with a zero length.

Affected products

Cisco ClamAV: through 0.87; 0.01, 0.02, 0.3, 0.03, 0.05, 0.8-rc3 (+51)

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/150
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=334&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:205

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