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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-2427
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CVE-2006-2427

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26453

ST
  1016086

SREASON
  http://securityreason.com/securityalert/912

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA20085

MISC
  http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA[2006-0514a].txt

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/434008/100/0/threaded


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