MEDIUM
Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and application crash) by wrapping many layers of multipart/mixed content around a document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5874 and CVE-2006-6406
Published Dec 12, 2006
5.0
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 3.75%
Description
Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and application crash) by wrapping many layers of multipart/mixed content around a document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5874 and CVE-2006-6406.
Affected products
No data.
- 0.88.6
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
5.0 MEDIUM NVD
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
3.75% 0.03753
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.03753
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 (18 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | 3.75% (0.03753) | 89.55th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 3.54% (0.03544) | 87.75th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jan 5, 2026 | 6.93% (0.06934) | 91.11th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Sep 16, 2025 | 5.43% (0.05428) | 89.79th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 3.62% (0.03618) | 86.70th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 5.38% (0.05378) | 83.13th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 3.62% (0.03618) | 87.00th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 7.76% (0.07765) | 94.18th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 6, 2024 | 9.58% (0.09581) | 94.24th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 22, 2023 | 11.37% (0.11367) | 94.65th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Oct 15, 2023 | 10.21% (0.10210) | 94.29th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 7, 2023 | 11.21% (0.11212) | 94.48th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 31, 2023 | 11.28% (0.11276) | 94.41th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 15, 2023 | 11.37% (0.11365) | 94.36th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 13.25% (0.13250) | 94.61th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 4.36% (0.04358) | 88.02th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 4.36% (0.04358) | 86.83th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 4.36% (0.04358) | 70.59th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (0)
No CWE recorded.
References (22)
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-14.txt x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
- http://osvdb.org/31283 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23347 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23362 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23379 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23404 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23411 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23417 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23460 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-18.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1238 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:230 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_78_clamav.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21609 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0072/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIX
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4948 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5113 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Dec 12, 2006
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Dec 11, 2006
Link CVE-2006-6481
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a