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CVE-2006-6481

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-12-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and application crash) by wrapping many layers of multipart/mixed content around a document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5874 and CVE-2006-6406.

Affected products

• Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: 0.88.6

References

• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
• http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-14.txt
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
• http://osvdb.org/31283
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23347
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23362
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23379
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23404
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23411
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23417
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23460
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29420

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