CVE-2005-2957: Avira Desktop

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in AVIRA Desktop for Windows 1.00.00.68 with AVPACK32.DLL 6.31.0.3, when archive scanning is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename in an ACE archive.

Affected products

• Avira Desktop: version 1.00.00.68 only

Published 2005-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.