CVE-2005-2056 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Quantum archive decompressor in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.86.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Quantum archive.

Published: 2005-06-28

Score: 2.6 Low

EPSS: 1.1% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.85:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.85.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.86:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2005-2058	The Quantum archive decompressor in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.86.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Quantum archive.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01101.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/15811
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=337279
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-737
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-23.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_38_clamav.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14058

History

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Subscriptions

Clam Anti-virus Clamav

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-06-28T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T22:15:36.832Z

Reserved: 2005-06-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-2056

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-06-29T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-2056

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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