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CVE-2005-3239

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3239 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) versions 0.87-1, specifically within its OLE2 unpacker. Remote attackers can trigger a segmentation fault and infinite recursion by providing a specially crafted DOC file with an invalid property tree. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high severity due to its network-based attack vector and complete availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
.CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:.:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0448 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/17184
secunia.com / advisories/17448
secunia.com / advisories/17451
secunia.com / advisories/17501
secunia.com / advisories/17559
securitytracker.com / id
sourceforge.net / project/shownotes.php
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-887
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-04.xml
mandriva.com / security/advisories
osvdb.org / 20536
securityfocus.com / bid/15101