CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-4049
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-11-23
- 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-119
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in aswRdr.sys (aka the TDI RDR driver) in avast! Home and Professional 4.8.1356.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via crafted arguments to IOCTL 0x80002024.
Affected configurations
• avast avast antivirus home 4.8.1356.0
• avast avast antivirus professional 4.8.1356.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37368 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.efblog.net/2009/11/avast-aswrdrsys-kernel-pool-corruption.html www.efblog.net
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507891/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37031 Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3266 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.evilfingers.com/advisory/Advisory/Avast_aswRdr_sys_Kernel_Pool_Corruption_and_Local_Privilege_Escalation.php www.evilfingers.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37368 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.efblog.net/2009/11/avast-aswrdrsys-kernel-pool-corruption.html www.efblog.net
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507891/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37031 Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3266 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.evilfingers.com/advisory/Advisory/Avast_aswRdr_sys_Kernel_Pool_Corruption_and_Local_Privilege_Escalation.php www.evilfingers.com