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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

Published 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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-399

References (4)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Dec 11, 2008
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Dec 11, 2008
Link CVE-2008-5427
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2008-5427
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2008-5427