CVE-2005-1923 Information

Description

The ENSURE_BITS macro in mszipd.c for Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.83 and other versions vefore 0.86 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption by infinite loop) via a cabinet (CAB) file with the cffile_FolderOffset field set to 0xff which causes a zero-length read.

Reference

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-737 http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=275&type=vulnerabilities