CVE-2006-3575 — Unknown vulnerability in the Buffer Overflow Protection in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (unstable operation) via a long string in the (1) "Process name", (2) "Module name", or (3) "API name" fields

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Unknown vulnerability in the Buffer Overflow Protection in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (unstable operation) via a long string in the (1) "Process name", (2) "Module name", or (3) "API name" fields

Published Jul 13, 2006

2.1

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.38%

Description

Unknown vulnerability in the Buffer Overflow Protection in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (unstable operation) via a long string in the (1) "Process name", (2) "Module name", or (3) "API name" fields.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.38% 0.00376

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00376

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.38% (0.00376)	29.16th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.38% (0.00376)	29.17th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.07% (0.00066)	17.85th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.95% (0.00950)	32.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	30.63th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	28.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	13.46th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1216
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016450
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439430/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27625
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1216		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016450		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439430/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27625		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 13, 2006

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jul 12, 2006

Link CVE-2006-3575

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2006-3575

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2006-3575