CVE-2006-5874
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.7%EU EUVD
Clam 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.
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
- 2.7% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5858)
- Published
- December 10, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5858 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23327
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23362
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23411
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1232(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:230
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_78_clamav.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21510
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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