Vulnerability CVE-2008-6662
Published: 2009-04-07   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
AVG Anti-Virus for Linux 7.5.51, and possibly earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed UPX compressed file, which triggers memory corruption.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
AVG antivirus for Linux vulnerability
iViZ
13.04.2009

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
AVG -> Avg anti-virus 

 References:
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122893196715523&w=2
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08014.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32749
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3461
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47254
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