Overview
avast! Mobile Security Android application version 2.0.3587, and possibly earlier versions, contains a denial-of-service vulnerability.
Description
avast! Mobile Security (version 2.0.3587) crashes if an Intent is sent to com.avast.android.mobilesecurity.app.scanner.DeleteFileActivity with no arguments. Upon receiving the malformed intent the application will crash with the following message. “Unfortunately, avast! Mobile Security has stopped.” |
Impact
A malicious application installed on the phone may be able to disable the avast! Mobile Security software. |
Solution
Apply an Update |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | 3.8 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C |
| Temporal | 3 | E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C |
| Environmental | 2.3 | CDP:ND/TD:M/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Kurt Traver for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Jared Allar.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2013-0122 |
| Date Public: | 2013-04-19 |
| Date First Published: | 2013-04-19 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2013-04-19 19:11 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 14 |