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CVE-2006-6409

CRITICAL CVSS: 10.0 Published: 2006-12-10 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Linux Gateways 4.65 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (possibly fatal scan error), and possibly bypass virus detection, by inserting invalid characters into base64 encoded content in a multipart/mixed MIME file, as demonstrated with the EICAR test file.

Affected Platforms

F-Secure F-Secure Anti-Virus

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References