Is this issue known?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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http://secunia.com/advisories/36858/

https://www.evilfingers.com/advisory/Advisory/Avast_aswMon2.sys_kernel_memory_corruption_and_Local_Privilege_Escalation.php (Original Advisory)

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Interesting, I hope this is being addressed.

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solved a memory leak in the GZIP unpacker

solved vulnerabilities in AavmKer4.sys, aswMon2.sys and ashWsFtr.dll (special thanks to Giuseppe Bonfa, Alex and Maxim A. Kulakov)

Ok, i see. It was fixed already in 4.8.1356 :slight_smile: