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Vulnerability details: VCID-14ba-3s5a-2ff3
Vulnerability ID VCID-14ba-3s5a-2ff3
Aliases CVE-2006-5295
Summary Unspecified vulnerability in ClamAV before 0.88.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (scanning service crash) via a crafted Compressed HTML Help (CHM) file that causes ClamAV to "read an invalid memory location."
Status Published
Exploitability 2.0
Weighted Severity 0.2
Risk 0.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
epss 0.25198 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2006-5295
epss 0.25198 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2006-5295
epss 0.25198 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2006-5295
epss 0.25198 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2006-5295
epss 0.25198 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2006-5295
epss 0.25198 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2006-5295
epss 0.25198 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2006-5295
epss 0.25198 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2006-5295
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2006-5295
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5295
393445 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393445
OSVDB-29774;CVE-2006-5295 Exploit https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/multiple/dos/2586.pl
Data source Exploit-DB
Date added Oct. 16, 2006
Description Clam AntiVirus 0.88.4 - CHM Chunk Name Length Denial of Service (PoC)
Ransomware campaign use Known
Source publication date Oct. 17, 2006
Exploit type dos
Platform multiple
Source update date Sept. 12, 2016
There are no known vectors.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.96149
EPSS Score 0.25198
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T16:30:14.563625+00:00 Debian Oval Importer Import https://www.debian.org/security/oval/oval-definitions-bullseye.xml.bz2 38.0.0