CVE-2006-6409

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Linux Gateways 4.65 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (possibly fatal scan error), and possibly bypass virus detection, by inserting invalid characters into base64 encoded content in a multipart/mixed MIME file, as demonstrated with the EICAR test file.

Affected products

F-Secure Anti-Virus: 4.65

References

http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453654/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21461
http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453654/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21461

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