Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0644

Title: McAfee Scan Engine buffer overflow RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-0644.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

7.12%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0644: Buffer overflow in McAfee Scan Engine 4320 with DAT version before 4436 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed LHA file with a type 2 header file name field, a variant of CVE-2005-0643.

Impacted Vendors

mcafee 1

kaspersky 1

Reference Links

http://images.mcafee.com/misc/McAfee_Security_Bulletin_05-march-17.pdf http://secunia.com/advisories/14628 http://securitytracker.com/id?1013463 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/361180 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10243 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12832 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/190 http://images.mcafee.com/misc/McAfee_Security_Bulletin_05-march-17.pdf http://secunia.com/advisories/14628 http://securitytracker.com/id?1013463 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/361180 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10243 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12832 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/190

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-0644 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 02, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.