CVE-2008-1438

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-1438
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermicrosoft
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-05-13 22:20:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionUnspecified 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Microsoft Antigen For Exchange All All All All
Application Microsoft Antigen For Smtp Gateway All All All All
Application Microsoft Diagnostics And Recovery Toolkit 6.0 All All All
Application Microsoft Forefront Client Security All All All All
Application Microsoft Forefront Security For Exchange Server All All All All
Application Microsoft Forefront Security For Sharepoint All All All All
Application Microsoft Malware Protection Engine 0.1.13.192 All All All
Application Microsoft Malware Protection Engine 1.1.3520.0 All All All
Application Microsoft Windows Defender All All All All
Application Microsoft Windows Live Onecare All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-029 - Moderate | Microsoft Docs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 docs.microsoft.com
Microsoft Malware Protection Engine File Parsing Denial of Service - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Lets Remote Users Deny Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Disk Space Exhaustion Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
marc.info af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA08-134A -- Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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