CVE-2008-6662

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2009-04-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

AVG Anti-Virus for Linux 7.5.51, and possibly earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed UPX compressed file, which triggers memory corruption.

Affected products

Avg Anti-Virus: 7.5.51

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122893196715523&w=2
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08014.html
http://www.osvdb.org/51962
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32749
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3461
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47254
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122893196715523&w=2
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08014.html
http://www.osvdb.org/51962
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32749
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3461
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47254

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