Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) on Mac OS

CVE-2005-1795 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The filecopy function in misc.c in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.85, on Mac OS, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a virus in a filename that contains shell metacharacters, which are not properly handled when HFS permissions prevent the file from being deleted and ditto is invoked.

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