>> AVG Anti-Virus File Parsing Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Title : AVG Anti-Virus File Parsing Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4498 CVE ID : CVE-2006-5937 - CVE-2006-5938 - CVE-2006-5939 - CVE-2006-5940
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-11-14
Technical Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in AVG Anti-Virus, which could be exploited by attackers or malware to take complete control of an affected system or cause a denial of service. These flaws are due to integer overflow, buffer overflow, uninitialized variable, and division by zero errors when processing malformed CAB, DOC, RAR, and EXE files, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application or execute arbitrary commands via a specially crafted file.
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