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Vulnerability details: VCID-gfff-zanp-aqb9
Vulnerability ID VCID-gfff-zanp-aqb9
Aliases CVE-2006-6481
Summary ClamAV is vulnerable to Denial of Service.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 4.5
Risk 2.2
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
Reference id Reference type URL
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-14.txt
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://osvdb.org/31283
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2006-6481
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6481
http://secunia.com/advisories/23347
http://secunia.com/advisories/23362
http://secunia.com/advisories/23379
http://secunia.com/advisories/23404
http://secunia.com/advisories/23411
http://secunia.com/advisories/23417
http://secunia.com/advisories/23460
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-18.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1238
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:230
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_78_clamav.html
http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21609
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0072/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4948
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5113
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
401874 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401874
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.88.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.88.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2006-6481 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6481
GLSA-200612-18 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200612-18
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6481
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.91369
EPSS Score 0.06934
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:02:41.741080+00:00 Gentoo Importer Import https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200612-18 38.0.0