Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-1770

Title: Avast! Antivirus Aavmker4 device driver buffer overflow RCE/DoS

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-1770.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date May 31, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.68%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-1770: Buffer overflow in the Aavmker4 device driver in Avast! Antivirus 4.6 and possibly other versions allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain signals combined with crafted input.

Impacted Vendors

alwil 1

avast 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111712494620031&w=2 http://pb.specialised.info/all/adv/avast-adv.txt http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111712494620031&w=2 http://pb.specialised.info/all/adv/avast-adv.txt

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-1770 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 31, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.