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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6406

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-6406

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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