CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2384

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2005-07-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2005-07-27
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in a third-party compression library (UNACEV2.DLL), as used in avast! Antivirus Home/Professional Edition 4.6.665 and Server Edition 4.6.460, allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files via an ACE archive containing filenames with (1) .. or (2) absolute pathnames.

Affected configurations

• alwil avast antivirus 4.6.460 • alwil avast antivirus 4.6.665

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/15776 Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-20/advisory/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014544 securitytracker.com
http://www.avast.com/eng/av4_revision_history.html www.avast.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/15776 Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-20/advisory/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014544 securitytracker.com
http://www.avast.com/eng/av4_revision_history.html www.avast.com