>> Clam AntiVirus Attachment and Message Handling Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Title : Clam AntiVirus Attachment and Message Handling Denial of Service Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4948 CVE ID : CVE-2006-5874 - CVE-2006-6481
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-12-11
Technical Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV), which could be exploited by attackers or malware to cause a denial of service. These issues are due to errors when processing malformed multipart/mixed contents or base64-encoded MIME attachments, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application, creating a denial of service condition.
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