Avira Antivir Antivirus before 7.03.00.09 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a…

Description

Avira Antivir Antivirus before 7.03.00.09 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a malformed TAR archive.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (10)

• 24239 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 24187 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://forum.antivir-pe.de/thread.php?threadid=22528 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• ADV-2007-1971 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• avira-antivir-tar-dos(34557) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 25417 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 36711 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• 1018137 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://www.nruns.com/advisories/%5Bn.runs-SA-2007.012%5D%20-%20Avira%20Antivir%20Antivirus%20TAR%20parsing%20Infinite%20Loop%20Advisory.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 20070530 n.runs-SA-2007.012 - Avira Antivir Antivirus TAR Denial of Service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 13:57 UTC.