Alwil Avast Antivirus Remote Code Execution

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Alwil Avast Antivirus (Anti-Malware Software) (the affected version unknown). Affected is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a remote code execution vulnerability. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Multiple interpretation error in unspecified versions of Avast Antivirus allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a malicious executable in a specially crafted RAR file with malformed central and local headers, which can still be opened by products such as Winrar and PowerZip, even though they are rejected as corrupted by Winzip and BitZipper.

The weakness was presented 10/14/2005 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at shadock.net. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2005-3214 since 10/14/2005. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 07/26/2017).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

See 26589, 26588, 26587 and 26586 for similar entries.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.6

VulDB Base Score: 5.6
VulDB Temp Score: 5.6
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Remote Code Execution
CWE: Unknown
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

10/14/2005 🔍
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03/11/2015 +3435 days 🔍
07/26/2017 +868 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: shadock.net
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-3214 (🔍)
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 07/26/2017 18:34
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (38), 07/26/2017 18:34 (6)
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Cache ID: 3:2F0

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