CVE-2007-2973

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-06-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Avira Antivir Antivirus before 7.03.00.09 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a malformed TAR archive.

Affected products

AVIRA Antivir: through 7.04.00.23
AVIRA Av Pack: through 7.03.00.08

References

http://forum.antivir-pe.de/thread.php?threadid=22528
http://osvdb.org/36711
http://secunia.com/advisories/25417
http://www.nruns.com/advisories/%5Bn.runs-SA-2007.012%5D%20-%20Avira%20Antivir%20Antivirus%20TAR%20parsing%20Infinite%20Loop%20Advisory.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470042/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24187
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24239
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018137
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1971
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34557
http://forum.antivir-pe.de/thread.php?threadid=22528
http://osvdb.org/36711

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