CVE-2006-6408: Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Anti-Virus

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux Mail Servers 5.5.10 allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection by inserting invalid characters into base64 encoded content in a multipart/mixed MIME file, as demonstrated with the EICAR test file.

Affected products

• Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Anti-Virus: version 5.5.10 only

Published 2006-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.