CVE-2008-6661

Bitdefender Antivirus vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

4.2%

EPSS pct

90th

Exploited

No known

Multiple integer overflows in the scanning engine in Bitdefender for Linux 7.60825 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed (1) NeoLite and (2) ASProtect packed PE file.

Affected vendor

Bitdefender

Affected product

Bitdefender Antivirus

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-189

Published

2009-04-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

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