CVE-2005-1922: Clam Anti-Virus Clamav

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The MS-Expand file handling in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.86 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor and memory consumption) via a crafted file that causes repeated errors in the cli_msexpand function.

Affected products

• Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: version 0.81 only; version 0.82 only; version 0.83 only; version 0.84_rc1 only; version 0.84_rc2 only; version 0.85 only; …

Published 2005-07-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.