Description
Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed base64-encoded MIME attachment that triggers a null pointer dereference.
Published: 2006-12-10
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 1.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1232-1 New clamav packages fix denial of service
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-5858 Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed base64-encoded MIME attachment that triggers a null pointer dereference.
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Clam Anti-virus Clamav
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:04:55.664Z

Reserved: 2006-11-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-5874

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-12-10T02:28:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-5874

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