Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-6409

Title: F-Secure F-Secure Anti-Virus Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-6409.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 10, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.67%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-6409: 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.

Impacted Vendors

f-secure 1

Reference Links

http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453654/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21461 http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453654/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21461

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-6409 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.

December 10, 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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.