Description
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.
Published: 2006-05-17
Score: 7.2 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-2428 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.
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Clam Anti-virus Clamav Clamxav
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T17:51:04.688Z

Reserved: 2006-05-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-2427

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-05-17T10:06:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2006-2427

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