CVE-2008-5427 - Norton Antivirus in Norton Internet Security 15.5.0.23 does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed

CVE-2008-5427

Summary

Norton Antivirus in Norton Internet Security 15.5.0.23 does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many "Content-type: message/rfc822;" headers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption or other resource consumption) via a large e-mail message, a related issue to CVE-2006-1173.

References

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_internet_security_2008:15.5.0.23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_internet_security_2008:15.5.0.23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	4.3 (as of 11-10-2018 - 20:55)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

CWE-399

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	MEDIUM	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
NONE	NONE	PARTIAL

cvss-vector via4

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

refmap via4

bugtraq	20081208 DoS attacks on MIME-capable software via complex MIME emails 20081209 Re: DoS attacks on MIME-capable software via complex MIME emails
misc	http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro
sreason	4721

Last major update

11-10-2018 - 20:55

Published

11-12-2008 - 15:30

Last modified

11-10-2018 - 20:55