CVE-2008-1438

Microsoft Malware Protection Engine <1.1.3520.0 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/30172
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29073
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020016
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14375
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1506/references
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_hp
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121129490723574&w=2
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-134A.html

Scores

EPSS 0.1294
EPSS Percentile 95.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (10)
microsoft/antigen_for_exchange
microsoft/antigen_for_smtp_gateway
microsoft/diagnostics_and_recovery_toolkit 6.0
microsoft/forefront_client_security
microsoft/forefront_security_for_exchange_server
microsoft/forefront_security_for_sharepoint
microsoft/malware_protection_engine 0.1.13.192
microsoft/malware_protection_engine 1.1.3520.0
microsoft/windows_defender
microsoft/windows_live_onecare
Published May 13, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026