CVE-2006-2427

NameCVE-2006-2427
Descriptionfreshclam 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
clamav (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)0.103.12+dfsg-0+deb8u1fixed
stretch (security)0.103.6+dfsg-0+deb9u1fixed
stretch (lts), stretch0.103.12+dfsg-0+deb9u1fixed
buster, buster (lts)1.0.7+dfsg-1~deb10u1fixed
buster (security)0.103.9+dfsg-0+deb10u1fixed
bullseye0.103.10+dfsg-0+deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)1.0.7+dfsg-1~deb11u2fixed
bookworm1.0.7+dfsg-1~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie1.4.1+dfsg-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
clamavsource(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

- clamav <not-affected> (clamav-freshclam doesn't ship freshclam setuid or setgid)

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