CVE-2006-5417 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the McAfee Network Agent by sending a long packet, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2006-5417?
CVE-2006-5417 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Oct 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-5417?
It affects 4 products.
Products include Mcafee Internet Security Suite, Mcafee Network Agent, Mcafee Personal Firewall Plus, Mcafee Virusscan.
How do I fix CVE-2006-5417?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-5417 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2006-5417 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-5417 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-9r32-ggv7-h33m.