60179 : avast! Home / Professional aswRdr.sys IOCTL Handling Local Overflow
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Timeline

Vendor Solution Date	Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2009-10-15	2009-11-14	2009-11-14

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2009-4049" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Heap-based buffer overflow in aswRdr.sys (aka the TDI RDR driver) in avast! Home and Professional 4.8.1356.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via crafted arguments to IOCTL 0x80002024.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Coordinated Disclosure
OSVDB: Security Software

Products

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References

CVE ID: 2009-4049 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 37031
Secunia Advisory ID: 37368
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-11/0113.html
Other Advisory URL: http://www.efblog.net/2009/11/avast-aswrdrsys-kernel-pool-corruption.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3266
https://www.evilfingers.com/advisory/Advisory/Avast_aswRdr_sys_Kernel_Pool_Corruption_and_Local_Privilege_Escalation.php

Credit

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CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.2
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2009-11-23 | Disagree?

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