CVE-2006-5417

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-5417
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-10-20 14:07:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionMcAfee 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mcafee Internet Security Suite All All All All
Application Mcafee Network Agent 1.0.178.0 All All All
Application Mcafee Personal Firewall Plus All All All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
exploits , vulnerabilities , articles , Xoops Module Camportail <= 1.1 (camid) Remote SQL Injection Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitydot.net
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Mcafee Network Agent Lets Remote Users Deny Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
SecurityReason - Mcafee Network Agent (mcnasvc.exe) Remote DoS af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
McAfee Network Agent Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
McAfee Network Agent Invalid String Position Denial of Service - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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