CVE-2006-5417
mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.018 · 78 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
weaknesses
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affected products (5)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
- mcafee internet security suiteall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:mcafee:internet_security_suite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- mcafee personal firewall plusall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:mcafee:personal_firewall_plus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
also known as (2)
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sources
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references (14)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22371enisa_euvd
- http://securitydot.net/xpl/exploits/vulnerabilities/articles/1659/exploit.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1750enisa_euvd
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017057enisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448546/100/0/threadedenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20496enisa_euvd
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29501enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22371Vendor Advisorynvd
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