CVE-2009-1601: Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Ubuntu clamav-milter.init script in clamav-milter before 0.95.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2 in Ubuntu 9.04 sets the ownership of the current working directory to the clamav account, which might allow local users to bypass intended access restrictions via read or write operations involving this directory.

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux: version 9.04 only

Published 2009-05-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.