PT-2006-7017 · Frisk · F-Prot Antivirus For Linux X86 Mail Servers

Hendrik Weimer · Published 2006-12-10 · Updated 2018-10-17 · CVE-2006-6407

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions F-Prot Antivirus for Linux x86 Mail Servers version 4.6.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection by inserting invalid characters into base64 encoded content in a multipart/mixed MIME file. This can be demonstrated using the EICAR test file, which is a standard test file used to check the functionality of antivirus software.

Recommendations For F-Prot Antivirus for Linux x86 Mail Servers version 4.6.6, consider updating the antivirus software to a version that includes a fix for this issue, or as a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of multipart/mixed MIME files with base64 encoded content to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-6407

Affected Products

F-Prot Antivirus For Linux X86 Mail Servers

References · 4

• 🔥 http://quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6407 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/453654/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/21461 · Note