CVE-2006-1892: Alwil Avast Antivirus

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

avast! 4 Linux Home Edition 1.0.5 allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/_avast4_ temporary directory.

Affected products

• Alwil Avast Antivirus: version 1.0.5 only

Published 2006-04-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.