CVE-2009-4049

avast! Home and Professional 4.8.1356.0 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in aswRdr.sys (aka the TDI RDR driver) in avast! Home and Professional 4.8.1356.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via crafted arguments to IOCTL 0x80002024.

Exploits (2)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by Evilcry · clocalwindows

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33360

View Code ZIP pw:eip

nomisec WORKING POC 1 stars

by fengjixuchui · poc

https://github.com/fengjixuchui/CVE-2009-4049

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (6)

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/37368

[Various Sources] http://www.efblog.net/2009/11/avast-aswrdrsys-kernel-pool-corruption.html

[Exploit] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37031

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3266

[Vendor Advisory] https://www.evilfingers.com/advisory/Advisory/Avast_aswRdr_sys_Kernel_Pool_Corruption_and_Local_Privilege_Escalation.php

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507891/100/0/threaded

Scores

EPSS 0.0040

EPSS Percentile 61.0%

Details

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Products (2)

avast/avast_antivirus_home 4.8.1356.0

avast/avast_antivirus_professional 4.8.1356.0

Published Nov 23, 2009

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026