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CVE-2006-5295
Unspecified vulnerability in ClamAV before 0.88.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (scanning service crash) via a…
Medium5.0EPSS 11.4%
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- mitre
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in ClamAV before 0.88.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (scanning service crash) via a crafted Compressed HTML Help (CHM) file that causes ClamAV to "read an invalid memory location."
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.4% · top 4.0% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (19)
- ADV-2006-4034 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 22488 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 22370 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2006:060 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 20061016 Clam AntiVirus ClamAV CHM Chunk Name Length DoS Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- 20537 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MDKSA-2006:184 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 22626 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4136 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- clamav-chm-dos(29608) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 22421 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4264 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-13.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-200610-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 1017068 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- DSA-1196 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 22551 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 22537 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 22498 (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)
- 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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