cve-2006-6409
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-12-10 02:00
Modified
2024-08-07 20:26
Severity ?
Summary
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Linux Gateways 4.65 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (possibly fatal scan error), and possibly bypass virus detection, by inserting invalid characters into base64 encoded content in a multipart/mixed MIME file, as demonstrated with the EICAR test file.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453654/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21461
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453654/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21461
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