Vulnerability CVE-2007-6595
Published: 2007-12-31   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Multiple vulnerabilities in ClamAV
Lolek and Roflek
01.01.2008

Type:

CWE-59

 (Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following'))

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Clam anti-virus -> Clamav 

 References:
http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-19.txt
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00009.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-07.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3501
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019148
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1497
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:088
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485631/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27064
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0606
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39335
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39339
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