CVE-2006-6408

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2006-6408 · Published 10/12/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-6408 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting kaspersky anti-virus (kaspersky lab).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.1%, higher than 81.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
kaspersky anti-virus kaspersky_lab	`= 5.5.10`	No fix yet

Description

Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux Mail Servers 5.5.10 allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection by inserting invalid characters into base64 encoded content in a multipart/mixed MIME file, as demonstrated with the EICAR test file.

References

quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/archive/1/453654/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/21461

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