VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-0705

high
Published 2010-02-25 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.2

Description

Aavmker4.sys in avast! 4.8 through 4.8.1368.0 and 5.0 before 5.0.418.0 running on Windows 2000 and XP does not properly validate input to IOCTL 0xb2d60030, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or execute arbitrary code to gain privileges via IOCTL requests using crafted kernel addresses that trigger memory corruption.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-12406 local windows verified
ryujin · 2010-04-27

Avast! 4.7 - 'aavmker4.sys' Local Privilege Escalation

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
windows Windows Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
avastavast_antivirus_professional4.8.1351
avastavast_antivirus_professional4.8.1356.0
avastavast_antivirus_professional4.8.1368.0
avastavast_antivirus_home{"endIncluding":"5.0.396.0"}
avastavast_antivirus_home4.8.1169
avastavast_antivirus_home4.8.1195
avastavast_antivirus_home4.8.1201
avastavast_antivirus_home4.8.1227
avastavast_antivirus_home4.8.1229
avastavast_antivirus_home4.8.1282
avastavast_antivirus_home4.8.1290
avastavast_antivirus_home4.8.1296
avastavast_antivirus_home4.8.1335
avastavast_antivirus_home4.8.1351
avastavast_antivirus_home4.8.1368.0
avastavast_antivirus_professional{"endIncluding":"5.0.396.0"}
avastavast_antivirus_professional4.8.1169
avastavast_antivirus_professional4.8.1195
avastavast_antivirus_professional4.8.1201
avastavast_antivirus_professional4.8.1227
avastavast_antivirus_professional4.8.1229
avastavast_antivirus_professional4.8.1282
avastavast_antivirus_professional4.8.1290
avastavast_antivirus_professional4.8.1296
avastavast_antivirus_professional4.8.1335

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.