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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2009-4049 EUVD-2009-4020GHSA-842f-8x99-f2w9

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 …

Published Nov 23, 2009 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

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.

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

GitHub 1 repository

  • fengjixuchui/CVE-2009-4049 ★ 1 · Jul 10, 2022

    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 privi…

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