CVE-2008-6962 is a local arbitrary code execution vulnerability affecting Avira AntiVir Premium, Premium Security Suite, AntiVir Professional, and AntiVir Personal - FREE. An attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted IOCTL request to overwrite a kernel pointer. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this flaw allows a local attacker to achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avira:antivir:-:-:premium:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.35.00.00CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avira:antivir:6.35.00.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avira:antivir_personal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avira:antivir_personal:*:*:premium:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avira:antivir_professional:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.