FKIE_CVE-2024-9481

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-10-04 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:24
Severity
5.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
An out-of-bounds write in the engine module in AVG/Avast Antivirus signature <24092400 released on 24/Sep/2024 on MacOS allows a malformed eml file to crash the application during file processing.
References
security@nortonlifelock.comhttps://support.norton.com/sp/static/external/tools/security-advisories.htmlNot Applicable
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
avast antivirus *
avg antivirus *
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