CVE-2006-5874 Affecting clamav package, versions <0.86-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.65% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-CLAMAV-18599981
  • published9 Aug 2026
  • disclosed10 Dec 2006

Introduced: 10 Dec 2006

CVE-2006-5874  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest clamav to version 0.86-1 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 Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1