CVE-2005-3500 Information

Description

The tnef_attachment function in tnef.c for Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.87.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and memory exhaustion) via a crafted value in a CAB file that causes ClamAV to repeatedly scan the same block.

Reference

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/152 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=333&type=vulnerabilities http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:205 http://www.osvdb.org/20483 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15316 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2294