CVE-2006-5939 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus versions prior to 7.1.407, where a specially crafted DOC file can trigger a divide-by-zero error, causing the software to crash. This vulnerability has a high severity CVSS score of 7.8, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability (crash) for the affected system. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:grisoft:avg_antivirus:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0.251CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:grisoft:avg_antivirus:7.0.251:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0.323CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:grisoft:avg_antivirus:7.0.323:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.1.308CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:grisoft:avg_antivirus:7.1.308:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.