CVE-2006-5417

high

Description

McAfee Network Agent (mcnasvc.exe) 1.0.178.0, as used by multiple McAfee products possibly including Internet Security Suite, Personal Firewall Plus, and VirusScan, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (agent crash) via a long packet, possibly because of an invalid string position field value. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29501

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20496

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448546/100/0/threaded

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017057

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1750

http://securitydot.net/xpl/exploits/vulnerabilities/articles/1659/exploit.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/22371

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-10-20

Updated: 2026-06-16

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: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01176