CVE-2004-1768

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-12-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Symantec Brightmail Antispam: 6.0.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/13489
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/697598
http://www.osvdb.org/12459
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18530
http://secunia.com/advisories/13489
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/697598
http://www.osvdb.org/12459
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18530

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