CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-3986
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Avast allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PE file, related to authenticode parsing.
Affected configurations
• avast avast
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136090/Avast-Authenticode-Parsing-Memory-Corruption.html Exploit
- https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=668 code.google.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39530/ Exploit
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136090/Avast-Authenticode-Parsing-Memory-Corruption.html Exploit
- https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=668 code.google.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39530/ Exploit