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CVE-2016-3986

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-04-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Avast allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PE file, related to authenticode parsing.

Affected products

• Avast: all versions

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136090/Avast-Authenticode-Parsing-Memory-Corruption.html
• https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=668
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39530/
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136090/Avast-Authenticode-Parsing-Memory-Corruption.html
• https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=668
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39530/

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