CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-2427

7.2 HIGH Published 2006-05-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-05-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

Affected configurations

• clam anti-virus clamav 0.88 • clam anti-virus clamxav 1.0.3h

References