CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-4438
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-12-21
- 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
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in Dec2Rar.dll 3.2.14.3, as distributed in the Symantec Antivirus Library and used by various Symantec products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via RAR archives with sub-block headers that contain incorrect values in the length field.
Affected configurations
• dec2rar.dll dec2rar.dll 3.2.14.3
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18131 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/276 securityreason.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015384 securitytracker.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/305272 US Government Resource
- http://www.rem0te.com/public/images/symc2.pdf Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419853/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15971 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3003 www.vupen.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18131 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/276 securityreason.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015384 securitytracker.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/305272 US Government Resource
- http://www.rem0te.com/public/images/symc2.pdf Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419853/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15971 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3003 www.vupen.com