CVE-2008-1338

high

Description

The Perforce service (p4s.exe) in Perforce Server 2007.3/143793 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a server-DiffFile command with an integer value within a certain range, which causes a loop until all memory is exhausted.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41361

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41017

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489179/100/0/threaded

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3735

http://secunia.com/advisories/29231

http://aluigi.org/poc/perforces.zip

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/perforces-adv.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-03-14

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01566