CVE detail
CVE-2005-3374 — CVE-2005-3374
Published 2005-10-30 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor frisk_software · Product f-prot_antivirus · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0135
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
69.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
Multiple interpretation error in F-Prot 3.16c 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."
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References