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CVE-2006-5295

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Description

Unspecified vulnerability in ClamAV before 0.88.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (scanning service crash) via a crafted Compressed HTML Help (CHM) file that causes ClamAV to "read an invalid memory location."

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29608

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4264

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4136

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4034

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20537

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_60_clamav.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:184

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1196

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017068

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-10.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/22626

http://secunia.com/advisories/22551

http://secunia.com/advisories/22537

http://secunia.com/advisories/22498

http://secunia.com/advisories/22488

http://secunia.com/advisories/22421

http://secunia.com/advisories/22370

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=423

http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-13.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-10-16

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.20239

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