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CVE-2006-6481
Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and application crash) by wrapping…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.8%
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- mitre
Description
Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and application crash) by wrapping many layers of multipart/mixed content around a document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5874 and CVE-2006-6406.
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)
- 3.8% · top 10% of all CVEs (6 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
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- affected n/a
References (22)
- 31283 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 21609 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-14.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 23460 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 23347 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 23404 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4948 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0924 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- DSA-1238 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 23417 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- GLSA-200612-18 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 2006-0072 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIXx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2006:078 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 29420 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2008-03-18 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 23379 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- MDKSA-2006:230 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-5113 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 23411 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 23362 (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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