CVE-2008-1625

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-04-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

aavmker4.sys in avast! Home and Professional 4.7 for Windows does not properly validate input to IOCTL 0xb2d60030, which allows local users to gain privileges via certain IOCTL requests.

Affected products

Avast Antivirus Home: 4.7.827, 4.7.844, 4.7.869, 4.7.1043, 4.7.1098
Avast Antivirus Professional: 4.7.827, 4.7.844, 4.7.1043, 4.7.1098

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29605
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-4-home_pro-revision-history.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490321/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28502
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019732
http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-002.txt
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1034/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41527
http://secunia.com/advisories/29605
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-4-home_pro-revision-history.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490321/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28502

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