CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-4626

7.5 HIGH Published 2006-09-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-09-07
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in alwil avast! Anti-virus Engine before 4.7.869 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted LHA file that contains extended headers with file and directory names whose concatenation triggers the overflow.

Affected configurations

• alwil avast antivirus (<= 4.6.460) • alwil avast antivirus (<= 4.6.763) • alwil avast antivirus 4.0.168 • alwil avast antivirus 4.0.172 • alwil avast antivirus 4.0.183 • alwil avast antivirus 4.0.202 • alwil avast antivirus 4.0.211 • alwil avast antivirus 4.0.229 • alwil avast antivirus 4.0.235 • alwil avast antivirus 4.1.260 • alwil avast antivirus 4.1.268 • alwil avast antivirus 4.1.278 • alwil avast antivirus 4.1.287 • alwil avast antivirus 4.1.289 • alwil avast antivirus 4.1.304 • alwil avast antivirus 4.1.319 • alwil avast antivirus 4.1.335 • alwil avast antivirus 4.1.342 • alwil avast antivirus 4.1.357 • alwil avast antivirus 4.1.389 • alwil avast antivirus 4.1.396 • alwil avast antivirus 4.1.412 • alwil avast antivirus 4.1.418 • alwil avast antivirus 4.1.501 • alwil avast antivirus 4.5.518 • alwil avast antivirus 4.5.549 • alwil avast antivirus 4.5.561 • alwil avast antivirus 4.6.603 • alwil avast antivirus 4.6.623

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