avast! Home/Professional Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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avast! Home/Professional Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

avast! is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability because it fails adequately sanitize user-supplied data.

Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM-level privileges. Successful attacks will completely compromise affected computers.

Versions prior to avast! Home/Professional 4.8.1169 are vulnerable.