CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2023-1639 — A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in IObit Malware Fighter 9.4.0.776
A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in IObit Malware Fighter 9.4.0.776. This affects the function 0x8001E04C in the library ImfRegistryFilter.sys of the component IOCTL Handler. The manipulation leads to denial of service. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-224019.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 5.5 (3.1)
- Published
- 2023-03-26
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-404
Affected products
- iobit / malware_fighter / 9.4.0.776
Matched remediation archetype
Resource exhaustion and denial of service
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Check exposure
- Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
- Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
- Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.
Remediate safely
- Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
- Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
- Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.
Authoritative sources
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