National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-6265
Original release date:12/07/2007
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in avast! 4 Home and Professional Editions before 4.7.1098 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via a crafted TAR archive.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-4-home_pro-revision-history.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-4097
External Source: BID
Name: 26702
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27929
Type: Advisory
External Source: XF
Name: avast-tar-code-execution(38877)