CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-3688

Use of Uninitialized Resource

Published: Aug 14, 2008 | Modified: Feb 08, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

sockethandler.cpp in HTTP Antivirus Proxy (HAVP) 0.88 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) by connecting to a non-responsive server, which triggers an infinite loop due to an uninitialized variable.

Weakness

The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Http_antivirus_proxy Havp 0.88 (including) 0.88 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References