Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-2838

Title: F-Secure F-Secure Anti-Virus RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-2838.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jun 06, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.69%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-2838: Buffer overflow in the web console in F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange 6.40, and Internet Gatekeeper 6.40 through 6.42 and 6.50 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown attack vectors. NOTE: By default, the connections are only allowed from the local host.

Impacted Vendors

f-secure 2

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/20407 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016196 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016197 http://www.f-secure.com/security/fsc-2006-3.shtml http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2076 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26799 http://secunia.com/advisories/20407 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016196 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016197 http://www.f-secure.com/security/fsc-2006-3.shtml http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2076 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26799

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-2838 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 06, 2006 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.