Buffer overflow in Avast Antivirus Home
CVE-2009-3522
Stack-based buffer overflow in aswMon2.sys in avast! Home and Professional for Windows 4.8.1351, and possibly other versions before 4.8.1356, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) and possibly gain privileges via a crafted IOCTL request to IOCTL 0xb2c80018.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.009 (59.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Avast Avast_antivirus_home — versions 4.8.1351
- Avast Avast_antivirus_professional — versions 4.8.1351
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)