CVE-2008-5427

Norton Internet Security 15.5.0.23 - Denial of Service via Malformed MIME E-mail Message

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_sreason
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4721
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded

Scores

EPSS 0.0087
EPSS Percentile 75.4%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (1)
symantec/norton_internet_security_2008 15.5.0.23
Published Dec 11, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026