CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-1587

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Apr 19, 2023 | Modified: Apr 29, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows were susceptible to a NULL pointer dereference issue via RPC-interface. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.11

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Antivirus Avast 22.5 (including) 22.11 (excluding)
Anti-virus Avg 22.5 (including) 22.11 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References