CVE-2006-6406
N/A
Published: December 10, 2006 at 02:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:33 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorClamav
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88.6 allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection by inserting invalid characters into base64 encoded content in a multipart/mixed MIME file, as demonstrated with the EICAR test file.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (13)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1238Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:230Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_78_clamav.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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