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CVE-2006-6293

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 16.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-12-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in FRISK Software F-Prot Antivirus before 4.6.7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted CHM file. NOTE: this issue has at least a partial overlap with CVE-2006-6294.

Affected products

• F-Prot Antivirus: through 4.6.6; 3.11b, 3.12, 3.12a, 3.12b, 3.12c, 3.12d (+18)

References

• http://gleg.net/fprot.txt
• http://gleg.net/vulndisco_meta.shtml
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-December/051096.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22879
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23328
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-12.xml
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017331
• http://www.f-prot.com/news/gen_news/061201_release_unix467.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/30406
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453475/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21086
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4830

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