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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2006-3961 EUVD-2006-3954GHSA-x3j8-8pm3-5gwm

Buffer overflow in McSubMgr ActiveX control (mcsubmgr.dll) in McAfee Security Center 6.0.23 for Internet Security Suite 2006, Wireless Home…

Published Aug 1, 2006 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

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.

Public exploits

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Metasploit 1 module

Exploit-DB 1

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