CVE-2006-5874

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-5874
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-12-10 02:28:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionClam 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.

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 Clam Anti-virus Clamav . All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.80 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.80_rc1 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.80_rc2 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.80_rc3 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.80_rc4 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.81 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.81_rc1 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.82 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.83 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.84 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.84_rc1 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.84_rc2 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.85 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.85.1 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.86 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.86.1 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.86.2 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.86_rc1 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.87 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.87.1 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Mandriva update for clamav - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Clam Anti-Virus MIME Attachments Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Debian update for clamav - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SUSE update for clamav - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1232-1 clamav af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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