Title: Symantec Norton AntiVirus Malformed EMail Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Symantec Norton AntiVirus is a desktop antivirus solution that includes incoming email virus scanning. It is available for Microsoft operating systems.
It is alleged that Symantec Norton AntiVirus is prone to a denial of service vulnerability. The discoverer of this issue reports that when a malformed email is received through Microsoft Outlook and Norton AntiVirus attempts to process this email, the Norton AntiVirus application will crash. Specifically, it is reported that an email that does not contain a message body, i.e. no new line separating the message body from the email header, will trigger the crash.
Symantec is currently investigating this report; this BID will be updated as soon as this investigation is complete. It should also be noted that the discoverer of the issue has not provided any details about which versions may be affected by this issue, version information will be updated appropriately when this issue is investigated further.
Affected Products:
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2001 0.0.0
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2001 Professional Edition 0.0.0
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2002 0.0.0
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2002 Professional Edition 0.0.0
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2003 Professional Edition 0.0.0
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004 Professional Edition
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 0.0.07.60.build 926
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7.0.0
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7.2.0
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7.5.0
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7.51.0
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7.6.0
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7.61.0
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.0.0
- Symantec Norton Antivirus 2003 0.0.0
References:
- Symantec: Symantec Homepage
- Zero <zerozero@controcultura.net>: No body emails and Norton antivirus
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