CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-1795

7.5 HIGH Published 2005-05-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-05-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The filecopy function in misc.c in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.85, on Mac OS, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a virus in a filename that contains shell metacharacters, which are not properly handled when HFS permissions prevent the file from being deleted and ditto is invoked.

Affected configurations

• clam anti-virus clamav (<= 0.84)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References