CVE-2008-6962: Avira Antivir

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Avira AntiVir Premium, Premium Security Suite, AntiVir Professional, and AntiVir Personal - FREE allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted IOCTL request that overwrites a kernel pointer.

Affected products

• Avira Antivir: affected versions not specified; version 6.35.00.00 only
• Avira Antivir Personal: any version
• Avira Antivir Professional: any version
• Avira Antivir Security Suite: affected versions not specified

Published 2009-08-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.