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avast! Home/Professional aavmker4.sys Privilege Escalation
Secunia Advisory: SA29605
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Release Date: 2008-03-31
Last Update: 2008-04-11
Popularity: 9,912 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:avast! Home/Professional 4.x
Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Solution:
Update to version 4.8.1169.
http://www.avast.com/eng/download.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
Tobias Klein

Changelog:
2008-04-11: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
avast!:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-4-home_pro-revision-history.html

Tobias Klein:
http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-002.txt

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