CVE-2006-5417

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

McAfee Network Agent (mcnasvc.exe) 1.0.178.0, as used by multiple McAfee products possibly including Internet Security Suite, Personal Firewall Plus, and VirusScan, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (agent crash) via a long packet, possibly because of an invalid string position field value. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

McAfee Internet Security Suite: all versions
McAfee Network Agent: 1.0.178.0
McAfee Personal Firewall Plus: all versions
McAfee Virusscan: all versions

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22371
http://securitydot.net/xpl/exploits/vulnerabilities/articles/1659/exploit.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1750
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017057
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448546/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20496
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29501
http://secunia.com/advisories/22371
http://securitydot.net/xpl/exploits/vulnerabilities/articles/1659/exploit.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1750
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017057
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448546/100/0/threaded

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