CVE-2006-6481: clam_anti-virus clamav
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2006-6481 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in clam_anti-virus clamav. EPSS estimates a 3.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89.8% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1Timeline
- 12-12-2006PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
3.75%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
90%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 3.75% on 22-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Clam_anti-virus1 product
- clamav0.88.6
Debian1 product
- clamav< 0.88.7-1
2 vendors · 2 products
References
23 links- kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-14.txtX Refsource CONFIRM
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- docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562X Refsource CONFIRM