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CVE-2007-3875
arclib.dll before 7.3.0.9 in CA Anti-Virus (formerly eTrust Antivirus) 8 and certain other CA products allows remote attackers to cause a…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 3.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
arclib.dll before 7.3.0.9 in CA Anti-Virus (formerly eTrust Antivirus) 8 and certain other CA products allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and loss of antivirus functionality) via an invalid "previous listing chunk number" field in a CHM file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.6% · top 11% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- 1018450 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/newsinfo/collateral.aspx?cid=149847 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20070724 Computer Associates AntiVirus CHM File Handling DoS Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- 20070725 n.runs-SA-2007.024 - CA eTrust Antivirus Infinite Loop DoS (remote) Advisory (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2007-2639 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20070725 [CAID 35525, 35526]: CA Products Arclib Library Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ca-arclib-chm-dos(35573) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20070726 RE: [CAID 35525, 35526]: CA Products Arclib Library Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/antivirus/infodocs/caprodarclib-secnot.asp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 25049 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 26155 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-3859 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2007-3875)Record last updated .