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CVE-2006-5417

McAfee Network Agent (mcnasvc.exe) 1.0.178.0, as used by multiple McAfee products possibly including Internet Security S

McAfee Network Agent (mcnasvc.exe) 1.0.178.0, as used by multiple McAfee products possibly including Internet Security Suite, Personal Firewall Plus, and VirusScan, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (agent crash) via a long packet, possibly because of an invalid string position field value. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.01271
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  • No active-exploitation, high-EPSS, or public-exploit signals - routine patching cadence
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Affected Products & Versions

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mcafee internet security suiteall versions
mcafee network agentall versions
mcafee personal firewall plusall versions
mcafee virusscanall versions
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MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD20 Oct 2006 · 02:07 PM
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://secunia.com/advisories/22371Vendor Advisory
http://securitydot.net/xpl/exploits/vulnerabilities/articles/1659/exploit.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1750
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017057
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448546/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20496
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