Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-3840

Title: Iss Proventia M Series Xpu Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-3840.

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date Jul 27, 2006
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.34%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-3840: The SMB Mailslot parsing functionality in PAM in multiple ISS products with XPU (24.39/1.78/epj/x.x.x.1780), including Proventia A, G, M, Server, and Desktop, BlackICE PC and Server Protection 3.6, and RealSecure 7.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted SMB packet that is not properly handled by the SMB_Mailslot_Heap_Overflow decode.

Impacted Vendors

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iss 10

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/21219 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016590 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016591 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016592 http://www.nsfocus.com/english/homepage/research/0607.htm http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441278/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19178 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2996 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/230 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27965 https://iss.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/iss.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=3630 http://secunia.com/advisories/21219 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016590 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016591 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016592 http://www.nsfocus.com/english/homepage/research/0607.htm http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441278/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19178 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2996 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/230 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27965 https://iss.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/iss.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=3630
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-3840 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.