CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2023-1643 — A vulnerability has been found in IObit Malware Fighter 9.4.0.776 and classified as problematic
A vulnerability has been found in IObit Malware Fighter 9.4.0.776 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function 0x8001E000/0x8001E004/0x8001E018/0x8001E01C/0x8001E024/0x8001E040 in the library ImfHpRegFilter.sys of the component IOCTL Handler. The manipulation leads to denial of service. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-224023.
- 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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