45028 : Microsoft Malware Protection Engine File Parsing Disk-space Exhaustion DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2008-05-13

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2008-1438" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : 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.

Classification

Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Solution: Patch / RCS
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, Microsoft has released a patch to address this vulnerability.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1020016
OVAL ID: 14375
CVE ID: 2008-1438 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 29073
Secunia Advisory ID: 30172
Related OSVDB ID: 45027
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 952044
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2008-1506
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-05/0222.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-05/0371.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121129490723574&w=2
Other Advisory URL: http://secway.org/advisory/AD20080514.txt
Microsoft Security Bulletin: MS08-029
CERT: TA08-134A

Tools & Filters

	32313

Credit

Sowhat - Nevis Labs

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-05-14 | Disagree?

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