CVE-2006-5874
Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed base64-encoded MIME attachment that triggers a null pointer dereference.
02 Description
Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed base64-encoded MIME attachment that triggers a null pointer dereference.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.67% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 85.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-12-10 02:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 20:04Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-11-14
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e4b331148240b6146ba06c16f3c3fb925819a34d79f9b51bdf275407334b3edd
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com23327http://secunia.com/advisories/23327
- www.debian.orgDSA-1232http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1232
- www.novell.comSUSE-SA:2006:078http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_78_clamav.html
- www.securityfocus.com21510http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21510
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2006:230http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:230
- secunia.com23411http://secunia.com/advisories/23411
- secunia.com23362http://secunia.com/advisories/23362
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- clamav Fixed in 0.86-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- clamav Fixed in 0.86-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- clamav Fixed in 0.86-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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