CVE-2008-1441

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 19.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-06-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, and Server 2008 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a series of Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) packets with invalid fragment options, aka the "PGM Malformed Fragment Vulnerability."

Affected products

Microsoft Windows Server 2003: all versions
Microsoft Windows Server 2008: all versions
Microsoft Windows Vista: all versions
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30587
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020231
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29509
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-162B.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1783
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-036
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5604
http://secunia.com/advisories/30587
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020231
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29509
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-162B.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1783

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