Denial of Service Vulnerability in Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.0.1
CVE-2004-1768

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Symantec
Status
Brightmail Antispam
Vendor
CVE Published:
17 December 2004

Summary

The character converters in the Spamhunter and Language ID modules of Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.0.1, prior to patch 132, are susceptible to a denial of service condition. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted messages utilizing the ISO-8859-10 character set, which the converters fail to recognize, leading to potential service interruptions and crashes.

References

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/697598
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/...
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http://secunia.com/advisories/13489
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

Timeline

  • Vulnerability Reserved

  • Vulnerability published

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