CVE-2008-4396

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-10-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in Safer Networking FileAlyzer 1.6.0.0 and 1.6.0.4 beta, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an executable with malformed version data.

Affected products

Safer Networking Filealyzer: 1.6.0.0, 1.6.0.4-beta

References

http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=34737
http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2008/09/filealyzer-1604-stak-overflow.html
http://packetstormsecurity.org/0809-advisories/filealyzer-overflow.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31474
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45516
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=34737
http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2008/09/filealyzer-1604-stak-overflow.html
http://packetstormsecurity.org/0809-advisories/filealyzer-overflow.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31474
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45516

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