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CVE-2023-1642 — A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in IObit Malware Fighter 9.4.0.776

Medium CVSS 5.5

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in IObit Malware Fighter 9.4.0.776. Affected is the function 0x222034/0x222038/0x22203C/0x222040 in the library ObCallbackProcess.sys of the component IOCTL Handler. The manipulation leads to denial of service. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. VDB-224022 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

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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