CVE-2006-6406 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-6406 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	None

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 227827 [VERIFIED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:078, published Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:19:26 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:51 2025