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Status published
High
CVE-2009-3522
Stack-based buffer overflow in aswMon2.sys in avast! Home and Professional...
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36507
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022940
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506681/100/0/threaded
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36858
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53456
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6226
- https://www.evilfingers.com/advisory/Advisory/Avast_aswMon2.sys_kernel_memory_corruption_and_Local_Privilege_Escalation.php
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2761
- http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-4-home_pro-revision-history.html
- http://osvdb.org/58402
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Affected Vendor
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Vulnerable Versions:
4.8.1351
Timeline
Official Publish:
October 1st, 2009
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.