Denial of Service Vulnerability in Symantec Products' Decomposer Component
CVE-2007-3699

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor: Symantec
Status: Mail Security; Client Security; Norton Antivirus; Norton Internet Security
Vendor: CVE Published:; 5 October 2007

What is CVE-2007-3699?

The Decomposer component in various Symantec products is susceptible to a denial of service condition, triggered when an attacker provides a specially crafted RAR archive file header with a specific value in the PACK_SIZE field. This vulnerability may lead to an infinite loop, causing the affected application to become unresponsive, thereby impacting the availability of services to legitimate users.

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