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CVE-2006-6406

Date: December 9, 2006

Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88.6 allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection by inserting invalid characters into base64 encoded content in a multipart/mixed MIME file, as demonstrated with the EICAR test file.

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (16)

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5113

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21461

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453654/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1238

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2006-6406

Url: http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-14.txt

Url: http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_78_clamav.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23379

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:230

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6406

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23460

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4948

Url: http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23362

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23411

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2006-6406

Severity Score

5.3

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	NONE
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