CVE-2004-1768

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The character converters in the Spamhunter and Language ID modules for Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.0.1 before patch 132 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via messages with the ISO-8859-10 character set, which is not recognized by the converters.

The character converters in the Spamhunter and Language ID modules for Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.0.1 before patch 132 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via messages with the ISO-8859-10 character set, which is not recognized by the converters.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 20 years ago

2004-12-17 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:31:00

Affected Software

Symantec BrightMail AntiSpam 6.0.1

6.0.1

References

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/sba/sba_60x/updates/p132_notes.htm

Patch

13489

Patch, Vendor Advisory

VU#697598

Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

12459

Patch, Vendor Advisory

symantec-brightmail-spamhunter-dos(18530)

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