Buffer overflow in Mcafee Antispyware
CVE-2006-3961
Buffer overflow in McSubMgr ActiveX control (mcsubmgr.dll) in McAfee Security Center 6.0.23 for Internet Security Suite 2006, Wireless Home Network Security, Personal Firewall Plus, VirusScan, Privacy Service, SpamKiller, AntiSpyware, and QuickClean allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via long string parameters, which are later used in vsprintf.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.338 (98.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mcafee Antispyware — versions 2005, 2006
- Mcafee Internet_security_suite — versions 2004, 2005, 2006
- Mcafee Personal_firewall_plus — versions 2004, 2005, 2006
- Mcafee Privacy_service — versions 2004, 2005, 2006
- Mcafee Quickclean — versions 2004, 2005, 2006
- Mcafee Security_center — versions 4.3, 6.0, 6.0.22
- Mcafee Spamkiller — versions 5.0, 6.0, 7.0
- Mcafee Virusscan — versions 2004, 2005, 2006
- Mcafee Wireless_home_network_security — versions 2006
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2006-3961?
- CVE-2006-3961 is a vulnerability in Mcafee Antispyware, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2006-08-01.
- Is CVE-2006-3961 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.