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CVE-2008-1438

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 12.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-05-13 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Antigen For Exchange: all versions
• Microsoft Antigen For Smtp Gateway: all versions
• Microsoft Diagnostics And Recovery Toolkit: 6.0
• Microsoft Forefront Client Security: all versions
• Microsoft Forefront Security For Exchange Server: all versions
• Microsoft Forefront Security For Sharepoint: all versions
• Microsoft Malware Protection Engine: 0.1.13.192, 1.1.3520.0
• Microsoft Windows Defender: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Live Onecare: all versions

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121129490723574&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30172
• 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
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121129490723574&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30172
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29073
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020016

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