Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-1922 - Unspecified vulnerability in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN clam-anti-virus
nessus
Summary
The MS-Expand file handling in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.86 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor and memory consumption) via a crafted file that causes repeated errors in the cli_msexpand function.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 7 |
Nessus
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_6D18FE19EE6711D983100001020EED82.NASL description An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports : Remote exploitation of an input validation error in Clam AntiVirus ClamAV allows attackers to cause a denial of service condition. The vulnerability specifically exists due to improper behavior during exceptional conditions. Successful exploitation allows attackers to exhaust file descriptors pool and memory. Anti-virus detection functionality will fail if there is no file descriptors available with which to open files. Remote exploitation can be achieved by sending a malicious file in an e-mail message or during an HTTP session. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 18975 published 2005-07-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/18975 title FreeBSD : clamav -- MS-Expand file handling DoS vulnerability (6d18fe19-ee67-11d9-8310-0001020eed82) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-773.NASL description This advisory adds security support for the stable amd64 distribution. It covers all security updates since the release of sarge, which were missing updated packages for the not yet official amd64 port. Future security advisories will include updates for this port as well. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 57528 published 2012-01-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/57528 title Debian DSA-773-1 : amd64 - several vulnerabilities NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-737.NASL description A number of potential remote denial of service vulnerabilities have been identified in ClamAV. In addition to the four issues identified by CVE ID above, there are fixes for issues in libclamav/cvd.c and libclamav/message.c. Together, these issues could allow a carefully crafted message to crash a ClamAV scanner or exhaust various resources on the machine running the scanner. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 18629 published 2005-07-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/18629 title Debian DSA-737-1 : clamav - remote denial of service