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CVE-2006-3961

N/A

Published: August 1, 2006 at 09:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:28 PM UTC

9 products affected across 1 vendorVirusscanInternet Security SuiteSecurity Center

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 34%

Description

Buffer overflow in McSubMgr ActiveX control (mcsubmgr.dll) in McAfee Security Center 6.0.23 for Internet Security Suite 2006, Wireless Home Network Security, Personal Firewall Plus, VirusScan, Privacy Service, SpamKiller, AntiSpyware, and QuickClean allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via long string parameters, which are later used in vsprintf.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Antispyware · McAfee

95%

Internet Security Suite · McAfee

95%

Personal Firewall Plus · McAfee

95%

Privacy Service · McAfee

95%

Quickclean · McAfee

95%

Security Center · McAfee

95%

4.3 6.0 6.0.22 6.0.23

Spamkiller · McAfee

95%

Virusscan · McAfee

95%

Wireless Home Network Security · McAfee

95%

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (10)

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/21264

VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Source: [email protected]

http://securitytracker.com/id?1016614

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://ts.mcafeehelp.com/faq3.asp?docid=407052

x_refsource_MISC

Source: [email protected]

http://www.eeye.com/html/research/advisories/AD2006807.html

x_refsource_MISC

Source: [email protected]

http://www.eeye.com/html/research/upcoming/20060719.html

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource

Source: [email protected]

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/481212

VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB

Source: [email protected]

http://www.osvdb.org/27698

Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442495/100/100/threaded

CVSS

6.8MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-119

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