National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-6481

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-0924

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-5113

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

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-4948

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

External Source: MISC

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

Type: Advisory

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

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 31283

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/31283

External Source: TRUSTIX

Name: 2006-0072

Hyperlink:http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0072/

External Source: BID

Name: 21609

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21609

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2006:078

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

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDKSA-2006:230

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

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1238

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

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200612-18

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-18.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29420

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29420

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23460

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

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23417

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23417

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23411

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

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23404

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23404

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23379

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

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23362

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

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23347

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23347

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2008-03-18

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html

External Source: CONFIRM

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

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

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562