CVE-2007-6595

Summary

CVECVE-2007-6595
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-12-31 19:46:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-15 21:55:00 UTC
DescriptionClamAV 0.92 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) temporary files used by the cli_gentempfd function in libclamav/others.c or on (2) .ascii files used by sigtool, when utf16-decode is enabled.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.92 All All All
Application Clam Anti-virus Clamav 0.92 All All All

References

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404 Not Found CONFIRM kolab.org
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Debian update for clamav - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1497-1 clamav DEBIAN www.debian.org
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: clamav (SUSE-SA:2008:024 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
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