Security Advisory

CVE-2008-5427

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-12-11 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:56:45
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.