CVE-2006-5874

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-10 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: through 0.88; ., 0.80, 0.80_rc1, 0.80_rc2, 0.80_rc3, 0.80_rc4 (+15)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/23327
http://secunia.com/advisories/23362
http://secunia.com/advisories/23411
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1232
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:230
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_78_clamav.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21510
http://secunia.com/advisories/23327
http://secunia.com/advisories/23362
http://secunia.com/advisories/23411
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1232
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:230

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