CVE-2006-6481

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-6481
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-12-12 01:28:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionClam 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.

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 0.88.6 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 kolab.org
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1238-1 clamav af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Mandriva update for clamav - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
ClamAV Attachment Wrapping Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
About Security Update 2008-002 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 docs.info.apple.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Trustix update for clamav - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
APPLE-SA-2008-03-18 Security Update 2008-002 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apple.com
Clam AntiVirus Multipart Nestings Denial of Service - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SUSE update for clamav - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0072 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.trustix.org
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- ClamAV: Denial of Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
osvdb.org/31283 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Debian update for clamav - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Hendrik Weimer's Quantenblog - Security: Bypassing Virus Scanners Using MIME Encoding Tricks af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.quantenblog.net Vendor Advisory
Kolab Server ClamAV Denial of Service Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Gentoo update for clamav - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
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