Title: Norton Antivirus 2002 Email Scanner Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: CRITICAL
Description:
Norton Antivirus is a desktop antivirus solution that includes incoming email virus scanning. It is available for Microsoft Operating Systems.
The Norton Antivirus email scanning component is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could potentially result in arbitrary code execution.
The email scanner scans any files attached to incoming email messages, and can be configured to scan files contained in compressed files. If a file with an unusually long name is contained in a compressed file message attachment, it could cause a buffer in the scanner to be overrun. This could potentially result in the email scanner failing, or arbitrary code execution in the security context of the scanner.
This vulnerability was reported to affect Norton Antivirus 2002, however, earlier versions may also be vulnerable.
Affected Products:
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2002 0.0.0
References:
- Symantec: Symantec Homepage
- Symantec: Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2002 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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