CVE-2008-5427

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 11, 2008
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Dec 11, 2008

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro
4721third-party-advisory
20081208 DoS attacks on MIME-capable software via complex MIME emailsmailing-list
20081209 Re: DoS attacks on MIME-capable software via complex MIME emailsmailing-list

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