CVE-2006-2427

Name	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
clamav (PTS)	bullseye	0.103.10+dfsg-0+deb11u1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	1.0.9+dfsg-1~deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm	1.0.9+dfsg-1~deb12u1	fixed
	forky, sid, trixie	1.4.3+dfsg-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
clamav	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- clamav <not-affected> (clamav-freshclam doesn't ship freshclam setuid or setgid)