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CVE-2008-6962

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: none known
• Published: 2009-08-13 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Avira AntiVir Premium, Premium Security Suite, AntiVir Professional, and AntiVir Personal - FREE allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted IOCTL request that overwrites a kernel pointer.

Affected products

• AVIRA Antivir: 6.35.00.00
• AVIRA Antivir Personal: all versions
• AVIRA Antivir Professional: all versions
• AVIRA Antivir Security Suite: all versions

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32269
• http://www.vupen.com/english/VUPEN-Security-Advisory-20081112.txt
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3130
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46567
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32269
• http://www.vupen.com/english/VUPEN-Security-Advisory-20081112.txt
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3130
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46567

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