CVE-2025-7007 (GCVE-0-2025-7007)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-01 16:34 – Updated: 2025-12-01 17:08
VLAI
Title
Null pointer dereference in Avast Antivirus on macOS (16.0.0) or Linux (3.0.3)
Summary
NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Avast Antivirus on MacOS, Avast Anitvirus on Linux when scanning a malformed Windows PE file causes the antivirus process to crash.This issue affects Antivirus: 16.0.0; Anitvirus: 3.0.3.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Credits
Mike Zhang
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