CVE-2008-6662: Input Validation
First published: Tue Apr 07 2009(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux | ||
| Avg Avg Anti-virus | =7.5.51 | |
| All of | ||
| Linux Linux kernel | ||
| Avg Avg Anti-virus | =7.5.51 |
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