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$ cve CVE-2006-5295 JSON

CVE-2006-5295 EXPLOIT

5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 11.4% (pctl 96)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

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."

Scoring

CVSS5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
VectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS11.39% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs
On CISA KEVno
Public exploityes
Published2006-10-16
Last modified2026-06-16

Affected (1)

VendorProduct
clam anti-virusclamav

Public exploits

References

→ the Explorer  ·  watch your stack  ·  NVD