CVE-2006-6481 Affecting clamav package, versions <0.88.7-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
7.77% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-CLAMAV-529881
  • published12 Dec 2006
  • disclosed12 Dec 2006

Introduced: 12 Dec 2006

CVE-2006-6481  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 clamav to version 0.88.7-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream clamav package and not the clamav package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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