CVE-2006-6481
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 3.8%EU EUVD
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.
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
- 3.8% (90th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-6464)
- Published
- December 12, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-6464 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- clam anti-virus / clamav
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-bypass(Vendor 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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