A vulnerability has been identified in ClamXav, which may be exploited by malicious users to gain knowledge of sensitive information. This flaw is due to insecure permissions being set on the "freshclam" utility during installation, which could be exploited by local attackers to disclose, in error messages, parts of certain files (e.g. "/etc/shadow") by maipulating the "--config-file" argument.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Kevin Finisterre (Digitalmunition)
ChangeLog
2006-05-15 : Initial release
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