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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker can use several vulnerabilities of Avast Antivirus.

– Impacted products: Avast AV.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Creation date: 28/04/2017.

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

Several vulnerabilities were announced in Avast Antivirus.

An attacker can trigger a fatal error via LPC interface API, in
order to trigger a denial of service. [severity:1/4; CVE-2017-8307]

An attacker can bypass security features via Trusted Arbitrary
Process, in order to escalate his privileges. [severity:2/4;
CVE-2017-8308]

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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Avast-Antivirus-two-vulnerabilities-22585