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CVE-2007-6595

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Description

ClamAV 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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39339

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39335

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0606

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27064

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485631/100/0/threaded

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:088

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1497

http://securitytracker.com/id?1019148

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3501

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-07.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/31437

http://secunia.com/advisories/29891

http://secunia.com/advisories/28949

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00009.html

http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-19.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-12-31

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00028

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