CVE-2006-3961
Buffer overflow in McSubMgr ActiveX control (mcsubmgr.dll) in McAfee Security Center 6.0.23 for Internet Security Suite 2006, Wireless Home Network Security, Personal Firewall Plus, VirusScan, Privacy Service, SpamKiller, AntiSpyware, and QuickClean…
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 34.4%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Buffer overflow in McSubMgr ActiveX control (mcsubmgr.dll) in McAfee Security Center 6.0.23 for Internet Security Suite 2006, Wireless Home Network Security, Personal Firewall Plus, VirusScan, Privacy Service, SpamKiller, AntiSpyware, and QuickClean allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via long string parameters, which are later used in vsprintf.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 34.36% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 3 July 2010
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- mcafee/antispyware · mcafee/internet security suite · mcafee/personal firewall plus · mcafee/privacy service · mcafee/quickclean · mcafee/security center · mcafee/spamkiller · mcafee/virusscan · mcafee/wireless home network security
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 34.4% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21264Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016614
- http://ts.mcafeehelp.com/faq3.asp?docid=407052
- http://www.eeye.com/html/research/advisories/AD2006807.html
- http://www.eeye.com/html/research/upcoming/20060719.html
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/481212US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/27698
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442495/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19265Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3096Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21264Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016614
- http://ts.mcafeehelp.com/faq3.asp?docid=407052
- http://www.eeye.com/html/research/advisories/AD2006807.html
- http://www.eeye.com/html/research/upcoming/20060719.html
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/481212US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/27698
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442495/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19265Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3096Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.