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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.128 (96.2th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.128 · newest: 0.128 · change: 0.000
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
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.osvdb.org/6099 (vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/634414 (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/637318 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/10335 (vdb-entry)
- www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-141.shtml (government-resource, third-party-advisory)
- lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-May/021360.html (mailing-list)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/294998 (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/10333 (vdb-entry)
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.