KLA10413 ACE vulnerability in Avast! Free Antivirus

An untrusted path vulnerability was found in Avast! Free Antivirus. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a library hijack.

Original advisories

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Related products

avast!-Antivirus

CVE list

CVE-2010-3126 critical

Solution

Update to latest version

Impacts

• ACE

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.

Affected Products

• Avast! Free Antivirus versions 5.0.594 and earlier