CVE-2004-0445

Severity

26%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

48%

The SYMDNS.SYS driver in Symantec Norton Internet Security and Professional 2002 through 2004, Norton Personal Firewall 2002 through 2004, Norton AntiSpam 2004, Client Firewall 5.01 and 5.1.1, and Client Security 1.0 through 2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption from infinite loop) via a DNS response with a compressed name pointer that points to itself.

The SYMDNS.SYS driver in Symantec Norton Internet Security and Professional 2002 through 2004, Norton Personal Firewall 2002 through 2004, Norton AntiSpam 2004, Client Firewall 5.01 and 5.1.1, and Client Security 1.0 through 2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption from infinite loop) via a DNS response with a compressed name pointer that points to itself.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.6. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Symantec Client

First reported 20 years ago

2004-07-07 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:30:00

Affected Software

Symantec Symantec Client Firewall 5.01

5.01

Symantec Symantec Client Firewall 5.1.1

5.1.1

Symantec Symantec Client Security 1.0

1.0

Symantec Client Security 2.0

2.0

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