CVE-2015-8620 in Avast! Antivirus
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.
Reservation
12/23/2015
Disclosure
04/13/2016
Entries
VulDB provides additional information and datapoints for this CVE:
| ID | Vulnerability | CWE | Exp | Cou | CVE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81087 | Avast! Antivirus/Internet Security Virtualization Kernel Mode Driver memory corruption | 119 | Unproven | Official fix | CVE-2015-8620 |