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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)…
Medium4.3EPSS 2.2%
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- Updated
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- 31118 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.f-prot.com/download/ReleaseNotesWindows.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2124 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_fprot_out-of-bound_memory_access_DoS.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1020507 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 30253 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- fprotantivirus-chm-dos(43835) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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