A vulnerability has been identified in Avast!, which could be exploited by attackers or malware to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error when processing malformed CHM files, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands (e.g. by sending an email containing a malicious file to a machine being protected by an affected product).
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2006-06-02 : Initial release
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