Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-3142

Title: Heap-based overflow in Kaspersky handling of CAB files

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-3142.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 05, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

42.54%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-3142: Heap-based buffer overflow in Kaspersky Antivirus (KAV) 5.0 and Kaspersky Personal Security Suite 1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a CAB file with large records after the header.

Impacted Vendors

kaspersky 1

kaspersky_lab 4

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0018.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112837961522571&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/17024/ http://securityreason.com/securityalert/44 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014998 http://www.kaspersky.com/news?id=171512144 http://www.osvdb.org/19850 http://www.rem0te.com/public/images/kaspersky.pdf http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14998 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1934 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22497 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0018.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112837961522571&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/17024/ http://securityreason.com/securityalert/44 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014998 http://www.kaspersky.com/news?id=171512144 http://www.osvdb.org/19850 http://www.rem0te.com/public/images/kaspersky.pdf http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14998 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1934 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22497

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-3142 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.

October 05, 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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.