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CVE-2005-3371 (GCVE-0-2005-3371)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-10-29 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 23:10
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Summary
Multiple interpretation error in AVG 7 7.0.323 allows remote attackers to bypass virus scanning via a file such as BAT, HTML, and EML with an "MZ" magic byte sequence which is normally associated with EXE, which causes the file to be treated as a safe type that could still be executed as a dangerous file type by applications on the end system, as demonstrated by a "triple headed" program that contains EXE, EML, and HTML content, aka the "magic byte bug."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2005-10-25 00:00
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