Vulnerability in Symantec Norton Internet Security 2008
CVE-2008-5427
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.
EPSS: 0.020 (79.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Symantec Norton_internet_security_2008 — versions 15.5.0.23
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SREASON, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)