Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-5427 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Symantec Norton Internet Security 2008 15.5.0.23

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

• CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

References