CVE-2008-5427

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-12-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

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.

Affected products

Symantec Norton Internet Security 2008: 15.5.0.23

References

http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4721
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded
http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4721
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded

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