CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-6962
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Avira AntiVir Premium, Premium Security Suite, AntiVir Professional, and AntiVir Personal - FREE allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted IOCTL request that overwrites a kernel pointer.
Affected configurations
• avira antivir
• avira antivir 6.35.00.00
• avira antivir personal
• avira antivir professional
• avira antivir security suite
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32269 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/VUPEN-Security-Advisory-20081112.txt Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3130 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46567 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32269 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/VUPEN-Security-Advisory-20081112.txt Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3130 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46567 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com