CVE-2008-1338

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-03-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

The Perforce service (p4s.exe) in Perforce Server 2007.3/143793 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a server-DiffFile command with an integer value within a certain range, which causes a loop until all memory is exhausted.

Affected products

Perforce Server: through 2007.3_143793

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/perforces-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/perforces.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/29231
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3735
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489179/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28108
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41017
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41361
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/perforces-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/perforces.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/29231
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3735

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