CVE-2006-5874 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) versions 0.88 and earlier. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the software by sending a specially crafted, malformed base64-encoded MIME attachment, leading to a null pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no impact on confidentiality or integrity, only availability. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.88CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
.CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:.:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.80CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.80:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.80_rc1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.80_rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.80_rc2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.80_rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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