CVE-2007-6595

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    CVE-2007-6595

    Published: 31 Dec 2007Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: 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://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1497, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:088, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0606, http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-19.txt, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00009.html, http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3501, http://securitytracker.com/id?1019148, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485631/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27064, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39335, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39339

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High