VYPR
Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 8, 2023· Updated Sep 3, 2024

Time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) bug leads to full local privilege escalation.

CVE-2023-5760

Description

A time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) bug in handling of IOCTL (input/output control) requests. This TOCTOU bug leads to an out-of-bounds write vulnerability which can be further exploited, allowing an attacker to gain full local privilege escalation on the system.This issue affects Avast/Avg Antivirus: 23.8.

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