CVE-2006-5417 (GCVE-0-2006-5417)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-10-20 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 19:48
VLAI
Summary
McAfee Network Agent (mcnasvc.exe) 1.0.178.0, as used by multiple McAfee products possibly including Internet Security Suite, Personal Firewall Plus, and VirusScan, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (agent crash) via a long packet, possibly because of an invalid string position field value. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
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://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448546/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017057 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://securitydot.net/xpl/exploits/vulnerabiliti… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20496 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/22371 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1750 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Date Public
2006-10-12 00:00
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