CVE-2005-2056

LOW 2.6CVE-2005-2056 · Published 29/06/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-2056 is a LOW (CVSS 2.6) vulnerability affecting clamav (clam anti-virus).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.3%, higher than 83.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
clamav clam_anti-virus	`= 0.85= 0.85.1= 0.86`	No fix yet

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.

References

secunia.com/advisories/15811
sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php · Patch
debian.org/security/2005/dsa-737
gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-23.xml · Patch
novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_38_clamav.html
securityfocus.com/bid/14058

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

clamav

clam_anti-virus

= 0.85= 0.85.1= 0.86

No fix yet

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