CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-8539

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-05-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-05-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119, CWE-369, CWE-476, CWE-674

Description

The Microsoft Malware Protection Engine running on Microsoft Forefront and Microsoft Defender on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and 2016, does not properly scan a specially crafted file leading to denial of service. aka "Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Denial of Service Vulnerability", a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-8535, CVE-2017-8536, CVE-2017-8537, and CVE-2017-8542.

Affected configurations

• microsoft forefront security • microsoft malware protection engine (<= 1.1.13704.0) • microsoft windows defender

Related

Weakness · CWE (4)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
  • CWE-369 Divide By Zero weakness
  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness

References