CVE-2009-3523

Avast Antivirus Home < 4.8.1351 - Improper Input Validation

Title source: rule

Description

aavmKer4.sys in avast! Home and Professional for Windows before 4.8.1356 does not properly validate input to IOCTLs (1) 0xb2d6000c and (2) 0xb2d60034, which allows local users to gain privileges via IOCTL requests using crafted kernel addresses that trigger memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1625.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC

pythonlocalwindows

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12406

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (4)

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/36858

[Various Sources] http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-4-home_pro-revision-history.html

[Exploit] http://www.ntinternals.org/ntiadv0904/ntiadv0904.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6024

Scores

EPSS 0.0016

EPSS Percentile 36.4%

Details

CWE

CWE-20

Status published

Products (29)

avast/avast_antivirus_home 4.7.827

avast/avast_antivirus_home 4.7.844

avast/avast_antivirus_home 4.7.869

avast/avast_antivirus_home 4.7.1043

avast/avast_antivirus_home 4.7.1098

avast/avast_antivirus_home 4.8.1169

avast/avast_antivirus_home 4.8.1195

avast/avast_antivirus_home 4.8.1201

avast/avast_antivirus_home 4.8.1227

avast/avast_antivirus_home 4.8.1229

... and 19 more

Published Oct 01, 2009

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026