Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-5937

Title: Grisoft Avg Antivirus RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-5937.

CWE Category CWE-190

Published Date Nov 16, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.86%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-5937: Multiple integer overflows in Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus before 7.1.407 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) CAB or (2) RAR archives that trigger a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Impacted Vendors

grisoft 1

avg 1

avast 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=116343152030074&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/22811 http://www.grisoft.com/doc/36365/lng/us/tpl/tpl01 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4498 http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=116343152030074&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/22811 http://www.grisoft.com/doc/36365/lng/us/tpl/tpl01 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4498

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-5937 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 23, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 16, 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:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.