Link Following Affecting clamav package, versions <0.92.1~dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-CLAMAV-533207
  • published31 Dec 2007
  • disclosed31 Dec 2007

Introduced: 31 Dec 2007

CVE-2007-6595  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 clamav to version 0.92.1~dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream clamav package and not the clamav package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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