CVE-2008-1438

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (mpengine.dll) 1.1.3520.0 and 0.1.13.192, as used in multiple Microsoft products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (disk space exhaustion) via a file with "crafted data structures" that trigger the creation of large temporary files, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1437.

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (mpengine.dll) 1.1.3520.0 and 0.1.13.192, as used in multiple Microsoft products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (disk space exhaustion) via a file with "crafted data structures" that trigger the creation of large temporary files, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1437.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 16 years ago

2008-05-13 22:20:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:45:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows Defender

Microsoft windows_live_onecare

References

SSRT080071

30172

Vendor Advisory

29073

1020016

TA08-134A

US Government Resource

ADV-2008-1506

MS08-029

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14375

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