Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-5427 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Symantec Norton Internet Security 2008 15.5.0.23
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL 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
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |