CVE-2007-6595

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

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.

Affected products

Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: 0.92

References

http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-19.txt
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00009.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28949
http://secunia.com/advisories/29891
http://secunia.com/advisories/31437
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

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