CVE-2006-2427 Information

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/20085 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/912 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016086 http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA[2006-0514a].txt http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434008/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1807 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26453