Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2004-0445. PoCs published by houseofdabus.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a denial-of-service vulnerability in Symantec firewalls by sending a malformed DNS response packet. The PoC constructs a crafted UDP packet with a malicious DNS response to trigger an infinite loop in the kernel, causing a system freeze.
Description
The SYMDNS.SYS driver in 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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption from infinite loop) via a DNS response with a compressed name pointer that points to itself.
Exploits (1)
This exploit targets a denial-of-service vulnerability in Symantec firewalls by sending a malformed DNS response packet. The PoC constructs a crafted UDP packet with a malicious DNS response to trigger an infinite loop in the kernel, causing a system freeze.