CVE-2007-6595: Clam Anti-Virus Clamav

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: version 0.92 only

Published 2007-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.