CVE-2006-6406 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6406
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Description: Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88.6 allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection by inserting invalid characters into base64 encoded content in a multipart/mixed MIME file, as demonstrated with the EICAR test file.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_78_clamav.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA23362 Secunia Advisory: SA23460 Secunia Advisory: SA23379 Secunia Advisory: SA23411 MISC http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:230 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1238 CONFIRM http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-14.txt BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/453654/100/0/threaded BID 21461

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