CVE-2016-10402: avira antivirus

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-10402 is a high (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability in avira antivirus. EPSS estimates a 10.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 27-07-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Avira Antivirus engine versions before 8.3.36.60 allow remote code execution as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM via a section header with a very large relative virtual address in a PE file, causing an integer overflow and heap-based buffer underflow.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.