CVE-2006-5417
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.
Published:Oct 20, 2006
Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
EPS:Oct 20, 2006
EPSS Score:0.01271
CVSS Score:5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Mcafee
Product
Internet Security Suite
Mcafee
Internet Security Suite
Vendor
Mcafee
Product
Network Agent
Mcafee
Network Agent
Vendor
Mcafee
Product
Personal Firewall Plus
Mcafee
Personal Firewall Plus
Vendor
Mcafee
Product
Virusscan
Mcafee
Virusscan
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
No CWE recorded yet
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
No CAPEC recorded yet
Related CVEs
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
