CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-2427

Published: May 17, 2006 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
UNTRIAGED

freshclam in (1) Clam Antivirus (ClamAV) 0.88 and (2) ClamXav 1.0.3h and earlier does not drop privileges before processing the config-file command line option, which allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files when an error message displays the first line of the target file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Clamav Clam_anti-virus 0.88 (including) 0.88 (including)
Clamxav Clam_anti-virus 1.0.3h (including) 1.0.3h (including)

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