Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 13, 2009· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2008-6962
CVE-2008-6962
Description
Avira AntiVir Premium, Premium Security Suite, AntiVir Professional, and AntiVir Personal - FREE allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted IOCTL request that overwrites a kernel pointer.
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Affected products
10cpe:2.3:a:avira:antivir_personal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:avira:antivir_personal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:avira:antivir_personal:*:*:premium:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:avira:antivir_professional:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:avira:antivir_professional:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)
- cpe:2.3:a:avira:antivir_security_suite:-:-:premium:*:*:*:*:*
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