Vulnerability in Symantec Client Firewall
CVE-2004-0444
Multiple vulnerabilities in SYMDNS.SYS for Symantec Norton Internet Security and Professional 2002 through 2004, Norton Personal Firewall 2002 through 2004, Norton AntiSpam 2004, Client Firewall 5.01 and 5.1.1, and Client Security 1.0 through 2.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via (1) a manipulated length byte in the first-level decoding routine for NetBIOS Name Service (NBNS) that modifies an index variable and leads to a stack-based buffer overflow, (2) a heap-based corruption problem in an NBNS response that is missing certain RR fields, and (3) a stack-based buffer overflow in the DNS component via a Resource Record (RR) with a long canonical name (CNAME) field composed of many smaller components.
EPSS: 0.128 (95.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Symantec Client_firewall — versions 5.01, 5.1.1
- Symantec Client_security — versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2
- Symantec Norton_antispam — versions 2004
- Symantec Norton_internet_security — versions 2002, 2003, 2004
- Symantec Norton_personal_firewall — versions 2002, 2003, 2004
- N/a — versions n/a
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (government-resource, x_refsource_CIAC, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2004-0444?
- CVE-2004-0444 is a vulnerability in Symantec Client Firewall. Published 2004-07-07.
- Is CVE-2004-0444 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.