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CVE-2008-1438

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
13/05/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:antigen_for_exchange:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:antigen_for_smtp_gateway:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:diagnostics_and_recovery_toolkit:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:forefront_client_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:forefront_security_for_exchange_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:forefront_security_for_sharepoint:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:malware_protection_engine:0.1.13.192:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:malware_protection_engine:1.1.3520.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_defender:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_live_onecare:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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