McAfee Network Agent (mcnasvc.exe) 1.0.178.0, as used by multiple McAfee products possibly including Internet Security Suite, Personal…

Description

McAfee Network Agent (mcnasvc.exe) 1.0.178.0, as used by multiple McAfee products possibly including Internet Security Suite, Personal Firewall Plus, and VirusScan, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (agent crash) via a long packet, possibly because of an invalid string position field value. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

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 (7)

• 20061012 Mcafee Network Agent (mcnasvc.exe) Remote DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 1017057 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://securitydot.net/xpl/exploits/vulnerabilities/articles/1659/exploit.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 20496 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• mcafee-mcnasvc-dos(29501) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 22371 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 1750 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 19:48 UTC.