CVE-2006-6496 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting CA Anti-Virus 2007, Anti-Virus for Vista Beta, and CA Internet Security Suite 2007. The flaw lies in the VetMONNT.sys and VetFDDNT.sys drivers, which improperly handle NULL buffers when processing specific IOCTLs. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.6, indicating high severity due to its potential for a complete system crash (availability impact) and requiring local administrative access and medium attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:etrust_antivirus:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:etrust_antivirus:8.2:beta:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:internet_security_suite:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.