CVE-2005-2385 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Buffer overflow in a third-party compression library (UNACEV2.DLL), as used in avast! Antivirus Home/Professional Edition 4.6.665 and Server Edition 4.6.460, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an ACE archive containing a long filename.

Published: 2005-07-27

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 4.0% 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

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:alwil:avast_antivirus:4.6.460::server:::::
	cpe:2.3:a:alwil:avast_antivirus:4.6.665::home:::::
	cpe:2.3:a:alwil:avast_antivirus:4.6.665::pro:::::

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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-2005-2386	Buffer overflow in a third-party compression library (UNACEV2.DLL), as used in avast! Antivirus Home/Professional Edition 4.6.665 and Server Edition 4.6.460, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an ACE archive containing a long filename.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.03994.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/15776
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-20/advisory/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014544
http://www.avast.com/eng/av4_revision_history.html

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Alwil Avast Antivirus

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-07-27T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T22:22:49.030Z

Reserved: 2005-07-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-2385

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-07-27T04:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2005-2385

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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