CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-6406
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-12-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88.6 allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection by inserting invalid characters into base64 encoded content in a multipart/mixed MIME file, as demonstrated with the EICAR test file.
Affected configurations
• clam anti-virus clamav 0.88.6
References
- http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-14.txt kolab.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23362 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23379 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23411 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23460 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1238 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:230 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_78_clamav.html www.novell.com
- http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453654/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21461 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4948 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5113 www.vupen.com
- http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-14.txt kolab.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23362 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23379 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23411 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23460 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1238 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:230 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_78_clamav.html www.novell.com
- http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453654/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21461 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4948 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5113 www.vupen.com