Two vulnerabilities have been identified in various Microsoft products, which could be exploited by attackers or malware to cause a denial of service.
The first issue is caused by an error in the Malware Protection Engine that does not properly validate input when parsing specially crafted files, which could be exploited to cause an affected application to become non-responsive and restart [...]
References
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1506
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-029.mspx
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by SoWhat (Nevis Labs).
ChangeLog
2008-05-13 : Initial release
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