Buffer Overflow in avast! Home and Professional for Windows
CVE-2009-3522

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor: Avast
Status: Avast Antivirus Professional; Avast Antivirus Home
Vendor: CVE Published:; 1 October 2009

What is CVE-2009-3522?

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in aswMon2.sys of avast! Home and Professional for Windows, specifically in versions 4.8.1351 and earlier than 4.8.1356. This flaw allows local users to exploit a crafted IOCTL request to IOCTL 0xb2c80018, potentially leading to a denial of service through system crashes and creating avenues for local privilege escalation.

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