CVE-2009-3522: Stack-based buffer overflow in aswMon2.sys in avast! Home and Professional for Windows 4.8.1351, and possibly other versions before 4.8.1356, allows local…

PriorityP434high7.2CVSS 2.0

AVLACLAuNCCICAC

EXPLOIT

EPSS

0.95%

56.7th percentile

Stack-based buffer overflow in aswMon2.sys in avast! Home and Professional for Windows 4.8.1351, and possibly other versions before 4.8.1356, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) and possibly gain privileges via a crafted IOCTL request to IOCTL 0xb2c80018.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
avast	avast_antivirus_home	—	—
avast	avast_antivirus_professional	—	—

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