CVE-2006-3575 (GCVE-0-2006-3575)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-07-13 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 18:30
VLAI
Summary
Unknown vulnerability in the Buffer Overflow Protection in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (unstable operation) via a long string in the (1) "Process name", (2) "Module name", or (3) "API name" fields.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2310 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016450 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439430/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1216 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2006-07-07 00:00
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