Aast! Antivirus 'aavmker4.sys' Denial Of Service Vulnerability (Win)

Summary
This host is installed with avast! AntiVirus and is prone to Denial Of Service vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation will let the local attackers to cause a Denial of Service or gain escalated privileges on the victim's system. Impact Level: System/Application
Solution
Upgrade to avast! version 5.0.418 or later For updates refer to http://www.avast.com/eng/download.html
Insight
The flaw is due to an error in the 'aavmker4.sys' kernel driver when processing certain IOCTLs. This can be exploited to corrupt kernel memory via a specially crafted 0xb2d60030 IOCTL.
Affected
avast! Home and Professional version 4.8 to 4.8.1368.0 and avast! Home and Professional version 5.0 before 5.0.418.0 on Windows
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