CVE-2006-3961: McAfee Antispyware

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 34.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• McAfee Antispyware: version 2005 only; version 2006 only
• McAfee Internet Security Suite: version 2004 only; version 2005 only; version 2006 only
• McAfee Personal Firewall Plus: version 2004 only; version 2005 only; version 2006 only
• McAfee Privacy Service: version 2004 only; version 2005 only; version 2006 only
• McAfee Quickclean: version 2004 only; version 2005 only; version 2006 only
• McAfee Security Center: version 4.3 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.22 only; version 6.0.23 only
• McAfee Spamkiller: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• McAfee Virusscan: version 2004 only; version 2005 only; version 2006 only
• McAfee Wireless Home Network Security: version 2006 only

Published 2006-08-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.