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CVE-2006-6481 Detail

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.


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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 CVE, MITRE
http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-14.txt CVE, MITRE
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html CVE, MITRE
http://osvdb.org/31283 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23347 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23362 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23379 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23404 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23411 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23417 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23460 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 CVE, MITRE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-18.xml CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1238 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:230 CVE, MITRE
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_78_clamav.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21609 CVE, MITRE
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0072/ CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4948 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5113 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-6481
NVD Published Date:
12/11/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE