Vulnerability CVE-2008-1438
Published: 2008-05-13   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Microsoft -> Antigen for exchange 
Microsoft -> Antigen for smtp gateway 
Microsoft -> Diagnostics and recovery toolkit 
Microsoft -> Forefront client security 
Microsoft -> Forefront security for exchange server 
Microsoft -> Forefront security for sharepoint 
Microsoft -> Malware protection engine 
Microsoft -> Windows defender 
Microsoft -> Windows live onecare 

 References:
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121129490723574&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29073
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020016
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-134A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1506/references
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-029
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14375
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