Process crash via unbounded jump-chain analysis
Published Aug 19, 2024 · Updated Mar 18, 2025
Resource exhaustion in Hex-Rays IDA Pro 8.4 and earlier allows attackers to crash IDA when a malicious binary is opened. ida64.dll analyzes a section containing an excessive chain of linked jumps without limiting the work, ending at a jump into the entry-point payload. The demonstrated x86-64 PE file must be opened for analysis; the reported consequence is process termination, not code execution or data compromise.
Summary
What happened
Resource exhaustion in Hex-Rays IDA Pro 8.4 and earlier allows attackers to crash IDA when a malicious binary is opened. ida64.dll analyzes a section containing an excessive chain of linked jumps without limiting the work, ending at a jump into the entry-point payload. The demonstrated x86-64 PE file must be opened for analysis; the reported consequence is process termination, not code execution or data compromise.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-44083
- Published
- Aug 19, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 18, 2025
- Vendor
- Hex-Rays
- Product
- IDA Pro
- Classifications
- CWE-770, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 19, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 18, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=8.4
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Public exploit references
- Azvanzed CVE-2024-44083 malicious-binary generatorproof of concept · demonstrated
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