CVE-2006-2427 Information disclosure in n/a
Local attackers can read arbitrary file contents via error messages in ClamAV freshclam due to improper privilege dropping.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2006-2427?
CVE-2006-2427 is a high-severity vulnerability in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav, published on 17 May 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
freshclam 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-2427?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Clam Anti-Virus Clamav, Clam Anti-Virus Clamxav.
How do I fix CVE-2006-2427?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-2427 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2006-2427 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-2427 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav
- CVE-2008-1100 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2008-0318 Integer overflow in n/a
- CVE-2007-6337 Unspecified vulnerability in the bzip2 decompression algorithm in nsis/bzlib_private.h in ClamAV before 0.92 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors.
- CVE-2007-3023 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2005-3587 Memory corruption in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3ch5-6956-fx84.