CVE-2006-6481
Clam 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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.75%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Clam 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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 3.75% probability · 90th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- clam anti-virus/clamav
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 3.8% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
- http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-14.txt
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
- http://osvdb.org/31283
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23347
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23362
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23379
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23404
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23411
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23417
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23460
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-18.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1238
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:230
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_78_clamav.html
- http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypassVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21609
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0072/
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4948
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5113
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
- http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-14.txt
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
- http://osvdb.org/31283
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23347
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23362
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23379
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23404
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.