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CVE-2006-5295: clam_anti-virus clamav

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2006-5295
Published 16-10-2006Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2006-5295 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in clam_anti-virus clamav. EPSS estimates a 11.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.9% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
32/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
11.39%
0%100%
Medium · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1exploit-database

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
DSA-1196-1

Timeline

  1. 16-10-2006
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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."

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

11.39%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

96%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 11.39% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
11.39%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • exploit-databasedosmultipleVerified

    Clam AntiVirus 0.88.4 - CHM Chunk Name Length Denial of Service (PoC)

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Clam_anti-virus1 product
  • clamav≤ 0.88.4 | . | 0.15 | 0.20 | 0.21 | 0.22 | 0.23 | 0.24 | 0.51 | 0.52 | 0.53 | 0.54 | 0.60 | 0.60p | 0.65 | 0.67 | 0.68 | 0.68.1 | 0.70 | 0.71 | 0.72 | 0.73 | 0.74 | 0.75 | 0.75.1 | 0.80 | 0.80_rc1 | 0.80_rc2 | 0.80_rc3 | 0.80_rc4 | 0.81 | 0.81_rc1 | 0.82 | 0.83 | 0.84 | 0.84_rc1 | 0.84_rc2 | 0.85 | 0.85.1 | 0.86 | 0.86.1 | 0.86.2 | 0.86_rc1 | 0.87 | 0.87.1 | 0.88 | 0.88.1 | 0.88.3
Debian1 product
  • clamav< 0.88.5-1

2 vendors · 2 products

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