CVE-2006-5417

Description

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.

Affected products

• McAfee / internet_security_suite
• McAfee / network_agent1.0.178.0 – 1.0.178.0
• McAfee / personal_firewall_plus
• McAfee / virusscan

References

• MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448546/100/0/threaded
• MISChttp://securitytracker.com/id?1017057
• MISChttp://securitydot.net/xpl/exploits/vulnerabilities/articles/1659/exploit.html
• MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20496
• MISChttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29501
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/22371
• MISChttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/1750