Symlink Attack Affecting clamav package, versions [0,clamav-0.92.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CLAMAV-2381104
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Dec 2007
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Dec 2007

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

How to fix?

Upgrade clamav to version clamav-0.92.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack. 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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