CVE-2007-6595
N/A
Published: December 31, 2007 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:48 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorClamav
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (15)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00009.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/28949Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-07.xmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Source: [email protected]
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3501Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-59
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