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Tracker / CVE-2017-8540

CVE-2017-8540

Exploited High 7.8

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 memory corruption. aka "Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability", a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-8538 and CVE-2017-8541.

Affected products and versions

microsoft endpoint_protection
microsoft exchange_server
microsoft forefront_endpoint_protection
microsoft forefront_security
microsoft intune_endpoint_protection
microsoft malware_protection_engine · 1.1.13701.0 → 1.1.13704.0
microsoft security_essentials
microsoft system_center_endpoint_protection
microsoft windows_defender

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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