CVE-2006-5417
McAfee 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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 1.8% (78th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5402)
- Published
- October 20, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5402 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mcafee / internet security suite
- mcafee / network agent
- mcafee / personal firewall plus
- mcafee / virusscan
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- McAfee VirusScan Enterprise v8.8 and ePolicy Orchestrator v4.5 - McAfee, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-10421-2011 - archived
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22371(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitydot.net/xpl/exploits/vulnerabilities/articles/1659/exploit.html
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1750
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017057
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448546/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20496
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29501
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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