CVE-2006-6481 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash ClamAV by sending deeply nested multipart content, causing a stack overflow and denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2006-6481?
CVE-2006-6481 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav, published on 12 Dec 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-6481?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Clam Anti-Virus Clamav.
How do I fix CVE-2006-6481?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
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-2006-6481 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-6481 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav
- CVE-2008-1100 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2008-0318 Integer overflow in n/a
- CVE-2007-6337 Unspecified vulnerability in the bzip2 decompression algorithm in nsis/bzlib_private.h in ClamAV before 0.92 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors.
- CVE-2007-3023 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2005-3587 Memory corruption in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2006-6481, GHSA-qpvm-hm98-hw68.