Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-6662

Title: Avg Avg Anti-Virus RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-6662.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Apr 07, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.35%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-6662: AVG Anti-Virus for Linux 7.5.51, and possibly earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed UPX compressed file, which triggers memory corruption.

Impacted Vendors

avg 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122893196715523&w=2 http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08014.html http://www.osvdb.org/51962 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32749 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3461 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47254 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122893196715523&w=2 http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08014.html http://www.osvdb.org/51962 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32749 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3461 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47254

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-6662 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 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 07, 2009 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:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.