CVE-2006-6293 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2006-6293

Heap-based buffer overflow in FRISK Software F-Prot Antivirus before 4.6.7...

Vulnerability Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in FRISK Software F-Prot Antivirus before 4.6.7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted CHM file. NOTE: this issue has at least a partial overlap with CVE-2006-6294.

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

Affected Software

f-prot antivirus
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 3.11b, 3.12, 3.12a, 3.12b, 3.12c, 3.12d, 3.13, 3.13a, 3.14, 3.14a, 3.14b, 3.14c, 3.14d, 3.14e, 3.15, 3.15a, 3.15b, 3.16, 3.16a, 3.16b, 3.16c, 3.16d, 3.16e, 3.16f

Timeline

Official Publish: December 5th, 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.