CVE-2006-2427

HighCVSS 7.2/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.2/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected software

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References

Timeline

Published: May 17, 2006
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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