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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2006-5295 json

Unspecified vulnerability in ClamAV before 0.88.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (scanning service crash) via a craft…

published 2006-10-16 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-5280

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.4%
EPSS 11.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

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."

Patch / fix

  • clamav Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.88.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-5295

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-2586)

Exploit prediction

11.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-2586 Clam AntiVirus 0.88.4 - CHM Chunk Name Length Denial of Service (PoC) dos, 2006-10-17

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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