CVE-2006-5417

McAfee Network Agent 1.0.178.0 - Denial of Service via Long Packet

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448546/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017057
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20496
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29501
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/22371
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_sreason
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1750

Scores

EPSS 0.0127
EPSS Percentile 79.8%

Details

Status published
Products (4)
mcafee/internet_security_suite
mcafee/network_agent 1.0.178.0
mcafee/personal_firewall_plus
mcafee/virusscan
Published Oct 20, 2006
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026