CVE-2025-7007 (GCVE-0-2025-7007)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-01 16:34 – Updated: 2025-12-01 17:08
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Null pointer dereference in Avast Antivirus on macOS (16.0.0) or Linux (3.0.3)
Summary
NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Avast Antivirus on MacOS, Avast Anitvirus on Linux when scanning a malformed Windows PE file causes the antivirus process to crash.This issue affects Antivirus: 16.0.0; Anitvirus: 3.0.3.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-01 17:07 UTC
CWE
- CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
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