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CVE-2024-37284 Improper handling of alternate encoding occurs when Elastic Defend on Windows systems attempts to scan a file or process…

Description

Improper handling of alternate encoding occurs when Elastic Defend on Windows systems attempts to scan a file or process encoded as a multibyte character. This leads to an uncaught exception causing Elastic Defend to crash which in turn will prevent it from quarantining the file and/or killing the process.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Elastic Defend 8.0 8.0.0 → < 8.13.3 8.13.3

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