CVE-2006-5938 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus before 7.1.407 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors involving an uninitialized variable and a crafted CAB file.

Published: 2006-11-16

Score: 10.0 Critical

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:grisoft:avg_antivirus:7.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:grisoft:avg_antivirus:7.0.251:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:grisoft:avg_antivirus:7.0.323:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:grisoft:avg_antivirus:7.1.308:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-5921	Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus before 7.1.407 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors involving an uninitialized variable and a crafted CAB file.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00518.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=116343152030074&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/22811
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/36365/lng/us/tpl/tpl01
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4498
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30246

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Grisoft Avg Antivirus

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-11-16T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:12:30.648Z

Reserved: 2006-11-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-5938

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-11-16T00:07:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2006-5938

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-20

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