45028 : Microsoft Malware Protection Engine File Parsing Disk-space Exhaustion DoS
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May 13, 2008

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(Description Provided by CVE) : 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.

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2008/05/14 19:43:00 | DOS vulnerability in malware protection engine. MS08-029

from: Johan Blom, Forefront anti-malware Blog

Hi! Microsoft has released a security bulletin regarding two vulenrabilties (one patch) in the Malware protection engine used by multiple Microsft products (se list of affected products below). This vulnerability has a severity rating of Moderate Even if you are running forefront products you might not be affected by this vulnerability since it

2008/05/15 14:45:12 | Microsoft: security bulletins for the month of May 2008

from: Windows 7

  Microsoft has put its new online security bulletins for the month of May ... this vulnerability could take full control of the system affected. Updated moderate: MS08-029

2008/05/14 14:07:10 | Four Vulnerabilities Patched By Microsoft

from: That Damn PC

Microsoft issued security bulletins and patched for four vulnerabilities today ... unclear, but assume the worst. The final bulletin, MS08-029, describes two vulnerabilities in Microsoft’

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