Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-3376

Title: Multiple interpretation error allows virus-scan bypass (magic byte bug)

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-3376.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Oct 30, 2005
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.1 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.35%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-3376: Multiple interpretation error in Kaspersky 5.0.372 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."

Impacted Vendors

K
kaspersky 1
K
kaspersky_lab 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113026417802703&w=2 http://www.securityelf.org/magicbyte.html http://www.securityelf.org/magicbyteadv.html http://www.securityelf.org/updmagic.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15189 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113026417802703&w=2 http://www.securityelf.org/magicbyte.html http://www.securityelf.org/magicbyteadv.html http://www.securityelf.org/updmagic.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15189
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.1
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-3376 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.