CVE-2006-5295

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-10-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in ClamAV before 0.88.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (scanning service crash) via a crafted Compressed HTML Help (CHM) file that causes ClamAV to "read an invalid memory location."

Affected products

Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: through 0.88.4; ., 0.15, 0.20, 0.21, 0.22, 0.23 (+41)

References

http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-13.txt
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=423
http://secunia.com/advisories/22370
http://secunia.com/advisories/22421
http://secunia.com/advisories/22488
http://secunia.com/advisories/22498
http://secunia.com/advisories/22537
http://secunia.com/advisories/22551
http://secunia.com/advisories/22626
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-10.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017068
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1196

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