CVE-2006-5417 - McAfee Network Agent (mcnasvc.exe) 1.0.178.0, as used by multiple McAfee products possibly including Internet Security Suite, Personal Firewall Plus, and VirusScan, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (agent crash) via a long packet, possibly because of an invalid string position field value

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McAfee Network Agent (mcnasvc.exe) 1.0.178.0, as used by multiple McAfee products possibly including Internet Security Suite, Personal Firewall Plus, and VirusScan, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (agent crash) via a long packet, possibly because of an invalid string position field value

Published Oct 20, 2006

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.78%

Description

McAfee Network Agent (mcnasvc.exe) 1.0.178.0, as used by multiple McAfee products possibly including Internet Security Suite, Personal Firewall Plus, and VirusScan, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (agent crash) via a long packet, possibly because of an invalid string position field value. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (7)

http://secunia.com/advisories/22371
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://securitydot.net/xpl/exploits/vulnerabilities/articles/1659/exploit.html
x_refsource_MISC
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1750
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017057
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448546/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20496
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29501
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/22371		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://securitydot.net/xpl/exploits/vulnerabilities/articles/1659/exploit.html		x_refsource_MISC
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1750		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017057		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448546/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20496		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29501		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 20, 2006

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Oct 19, 2006

Link CVE-2006-5417

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2006-5417

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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