Avast Antivirus up to 7.0.3.5 on macOS Malformed File heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability has been found in Avast Antivirus on macOS and classified as critical. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Malformed File Handler. This manipulation causes heap-based overflow. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-8351. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Avast Antivirus on macOS. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component Malformed File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Heap-based Buffer Overflow, Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in Avira Antivirus engine when scanning a malformed file may allow Local Execution of Code or Denial-of-Service of the antivirus engine process. This issue affects Avira Antivirus on Windows, macOS, and Linux for engine builds before 8.3.70.98.

The advisory is shared at gendigital.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-8351 since 07/30/2025. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/13/2026).

Upgrading to version 8.3.70.98 eliminates this vulnerability.

Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Type

• Anti-Malware Software

Vendor

• Avast

Name

• Antivirus

Version

• 1.0.5
• 1.0.5-1
• 1.0.8
• 2.0.3587
• 2.0.4400
• 3.9.2025
• 4.0
• 4.2.254.0
• 4.5.1
• 4.6
• 4.6.2.117
• 4.6.394
• 4.6.460
• 4.6.489
• 4.6.566
• 4.6.603
• 4.6.652
• 4.6.655
• 4.6.665
• 4.6.691
• 4.7.652
• 4.7.660
• 4.7.676
• 4.7.700
• 4.7.726
• 4.7.827
• 4.7.844
• 4.7.869
• 4.7.980
• 4.7.1043
• 4.7.1098
• 4.8.1281.0
• 4.8.1351
• 4.8.1351.0
• 4.8.1356.0
• 5.0.677.0
• 5.2.11.5
• 6.06.12
• 7.0.3.5

License

• free

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