CVE-2016-3986 (GCVE-0-2016-3986)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-04-08 16:00
Modified
2024-09-17 01:46
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Avast allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PE file, related to authenticode parsing.
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