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.
References
- clamxav-freshclam-insecure-privileges(26453) vdb-entry
- 1016086 vdb-entry
- 20060515 DMA[2006-0514a] - 'ClamAV freshclam incorrect privilege drop' mailing-list
- ADV-2006-1807 vdb-entry
- 20085 third-party-advisory
- 912 third-party-advisory
- http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA%5B2006-0514a%5D.txt