Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-3244

Title: F-Prot Scanning Engine Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-3244.

CWE Category CWE-20
Published Date Jul 21, 2008
Modified Date Apr 09, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.48%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-3244: 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.

Impacted Vendors

F
frisk_software 1
F
f-prot 2
T
trend_micro 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/31118 http://www.f-prot.com/download/ReleaseNotesWindows.txt http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_fprot_out-of-bound_memory_access_DoS.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30253 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020507 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2124/references https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43835 http://secunia.com/advisories/31118 http://www.f-prot.com/download/ReleaseNotesWindows.txt http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_fprot_out-of-bound_memory_access_DoS.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30253 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020507 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2124/references https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43835
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-3244 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.