CVE-2008-3244

N/A Unknown

Published: July 21, 2008 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

The scanning engine before 4.4.4 in F-Prot Antivirus before 6.0.9.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (engine crash) via a CHM file with a large nb_dir value that triggers an out-of-bounds read.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/31118

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.f-prot.com/download/ReleaseNotesWindows.txt

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_fprot_out-of-bound_memory_access_DoS.php

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30253

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020507

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2124/references

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43835

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/31118