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CVE-2005-2919

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2919 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) versions prior to 0.87. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw by submitting a specially crafted FSG packed executable, leading to an infinite loop in the libclamav/fsg.c component. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and potential for denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.70CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.70:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.71CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.71:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.72CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.72:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.73CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.73:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.74CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.74:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0361 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/16848
secunia.com / advisories/16989
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/22308
sourceforge.net / project/shownotes.php
Patch
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-824
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-13.xml
Vendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_55_clamav.html
osvdb.org / 19507
securityfocus.com / bid/14867
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/1774