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CVE-2024-9484

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Oct 04, 2024 | Modified: Nov 08, 2024
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
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9484
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

An null-pointer-derefrence in the engine module in AVG/Avast Antivirus signature <24092400 released on 24/Sep/2024 on MacOS allows a malformed xar file to crash the application during file processing.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Antivirus Avast * 24092400 (excluding)
Antivirus Avg * 24092400 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References

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