Summary
This host has Norton AntiVius in Norton Internet Security installed and is prone to Denial of Service Vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation will allow remote attackers to deny the service.
Impact Level: Application
Solution
No solution or patch was made available for at least one year since disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.
For updates refer to http://www.symantec.com/norton/index.jsp
Insight
The flaws are due to improper handling of multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and stack consumption by Content-type: message/rfc822 headers via a large e-mail message.
Affected
Symantec, Norton AntiVirus version 15.5.0.23 on Windows.
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-5427 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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