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avast! Home/Professional "aswMon" Privilege Escalation
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA36442
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Release Date:
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2009-08-25
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Last Update:
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2009-08-27
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Popularity:
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1,481 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
DoS
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | avast! Home/Professional 4.x
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Description:
Heurs has reported a vulnerability in avast! Home/Professional, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "aswMon" kernel driver when processing IOCTLs. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code in kernel space via a specially crafted IOCTL.
The vulnerability is reported in avast! Professional version 4.8.1335. Other versions may also be affected.
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