CVE-2006-3575

Unknown vulnerability in the Buffer Overflow Protection in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (unstable operation) via a long string in the (1) "Process name", (2) "Module name", or (3) "API name" fields.

Published: 2006-07-13 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-3575 is rated Low Risk (18.9/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.38%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-3575

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.07% 0.38% +0.31%
2 2025-03-17 0.04% 0.07% +0.02%
3 2023-03-07 0.04%

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-3575

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.1 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
3.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-3575

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-3575

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mcafee virusscan 8.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan:8.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-3575

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