CVE-2006-5874 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2006-5874

Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88 and earlier allows remote attackers to...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

clam anti-virus

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Affected Software

clamav
Vulnerable Versions:
0, ., 0.80, 0.80_rc1, 0.80_rc2, 0.80_rc3, 0.80_rc4, 0.81, 0.81_rc1, 0.82, 0.83, 0.84, 0.84_rc1, 0.84_rc2, 0.85, 0.85.1, 0.86, 0.86.1, 0.86.2, 0.86_rc1, 0.87, 0.87.1

Timeline

Official Publish: December 10th, 2006
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.