CVE-2006-5417

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

McAfee Network Agent (mcnasvc.exe) 1.0.178.0, según lo utilizado por múltiples productos McAfee posiblemente incluyendo Internet Security Suite, Personal Firewall Plus, y VirusScan, permiten a un atacante remoto provocar denegación de servicio (caida del agente) a través de un gran paquete, posiblemente a causa de un valor de posición de cadena inválido. NOTA: algunos de los detalles de esta información se obtuvieron de terceros.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2006-10-19 CVE Reserved
2006-10-20 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CAPEC

References (7)

URL	Tag	Source
http://securitydot.net/xpl/exploits/vulnerabilities/articles/1659/exploit.html	X_refsource_misc
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1750	Third Party Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017057	Vdb Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448546/100/0/threaded	Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20496	Vdb Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29501	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://secunia.com/advisories/22371	2018-10-17

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Mcafee Search vendor "Mcafee"		Internet Security Suite Search vendor "Mcafee" for product "Internet Security Suite"				*		-		Affected
Mcafee Search vendor "Mcafee"		Network Agent Search vendor "Mcafee" for product "Network Agent"				1.0.178.0 Search vendor "Mcafee" for product "Network Agent" and version "1.0.178.0"		-		Affected
Mcafee Search vendor "Mcafee"		Personal Firewall Plus Search vendor "Mcafee" for product "Personal Firewall Plus"				*		-		Affected
Mcafee Search vendor "Mcafee"		Virusscan Search vendor "Mcafee" for product "Virusscan"				*		-		Affected