Avast Antivirus Professional vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product23 versions
The short answer

Avast Antivirus Professional is made by Avast. We track 8 published vulnerabilities in it, across 23 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Avast Antivirus Professional, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Which Avast Antivirus Professional vulnerabilities are being exploited?

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None of Avast Antivirus Professional's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Avast Antivirus Professional flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

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  1. 3.2%

    unzoo.c, as used in multiple products including AMaViS 2.4.1 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a ZOO archive with a direntry structure that points to a previous file.

    CVSS7.8Published9 May 2007
  2. 1.3%

    Unspecified vulnerability in avast! 4 Home and Professional Editions before 4.7.1098 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via a crafted TAR archive.

    CVSS6.8Published7 Dec 2007
  3. 1.1%

    Heap-based buffer overflow in aswRdr.sys (aka the TDI RDR driver) in avast!

    CVSS7.2Published23 Nov 2009
  4. 0.9%

    Aavmker4.sys in avast! 4.8 through 4.8.1368.0 and 5.0 before 5.0.418.0 running on Windows 2000 and XP does not properly validate input to IOCTL 0xb2d60030, which allows local users to cause a denial of service...

    CVSS7.2Published25 Feb 2010
  5. 0.8%

    aavmKer4.sys in avast! Home and Professional for Windows before 4.8.1356 does not properly validate input to IOCTLs (1) 0xb2d6000c and (2) 0xb2d60034, which allows local users to gain privileges via IOCTL requests...

    CVSS6.9Published1 Oct 2009
  6. 0.7%

    aavmker4.sys in avast! Home and Professional 4.7 for Windows does not properly validate input to IOCTL 0xb2d60030, which allows local users to gain privileges via certain IOCTL requests.

    CVSS6.8Published2 Apr 2008
  7. 0.4%

    Unspecified vulnerability in ashWsFtr.dll in avast!

    CVSS7.2Published1 Oct 2009
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We track 8 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Avast Antivirus Professional, across 23 versions.

None of Avast Antivirus Professional's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

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