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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.2 High

CVE-2023-5760

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

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
NLOK

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Avast/AVG Avast/Avg Antivirus

Default version status: unaffected

  • 23.8affected

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