CVE-2006-6406

published 2006-12-10

CVE-2006-6406: Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88.6 allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection by inserting invalid characters into base64 encoded content in a…

Priority P4 24 medium 5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C N I P A N

Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88.6 allows remote attackers to 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

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
clam_anti-virus	clamav	—	—
clamav	clamav	>= 0 < 0.88.7-1	0.88.7-1
clamav	clamav	>= 0 < 0.88.7-1	0.88.7-1
clamav	clamav	>= 0 < 0.88.7-1	0.88.7-1
clamav	clamav	>= 0 < 0.88.7-1	0.88.7-1
debian	clamav	< clamav 0.88.7-1 (bookworm)	clamav 0.88.7-1 (bookworm)

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv 5.0 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.0 LOW

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