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FKIE_CVE-2015-8620

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-04-13 14:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:34

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Avast virtualization driver (aswSnx.sys) in Avast Internet Security, Pro Antivirus, Premier, and Free Antivirus before 11.1.2253 allows local users to gain privileges via a Unicode file path in an IOCTL request.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135859/Avast-11.1.2245-Heap-Overflow.html	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Feb/94	Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035093	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org	https://www.nettitude.co.uk/exploiting-a-kernel-paged-pool-buffer-overflow-in-avast-virtualization-driver/	Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135859/Avast-11.1.2245-Heap-Overflow.html	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Feb/94	Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035093	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.nettitude.co.uk/exploiting-a-kernel-paged-pool-buffer-overflow-in-avast-virtualization-driver/	Exploit

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
avast	avast_free_antivirus	*
avast	avast_internet_security	*
avast	avast_premier	*
avast	avast_pro_antivirus	*

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CVE-2015-8620 (GCVE-0-2015-8620)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-13 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:20

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135859/Avast…	x_refsource_MISC
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Feb/94	mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
https://www.nettitude.co.uk/exploiting-a-kernel-p…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035093	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Date Public

2016-02-17 00:00

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CVE-2015-8620 (GCVE-0-2015-8620)

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