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A vulnerability was found in Symantec Brightmail Antispam (Anti-Spam Software) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Messages. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

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 weakness was shared 12/17/2004 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). It is possible to read the advisory at kb.cert.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2004-1768 since 03/10/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version bis 6.0.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (18530).

Productinfo

Type

• Anti-Spam Software

Vendor

• Symantec

Name

• Brightmail Antispam

License

• commercial

CPE 2.3info

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CPE 2.2info

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CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499

Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍
Upgrade: Brightmail Antispam bis 6.0.0

Timelineinfo

12/17/2004 🔍
12/17/2004 +0 days 🔍
12/17/2004 +0 days 🔍
12/17/2004 +0 days 🔍
12/17/2004 +0 days 🔍
03/10/2005 +82 days 🔍
02/27/2015 +3641 days 🔍
07/16/2017 +870 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: symantec.com

Advisory: kb.cert.org
Status: Confirmed
Confirmation: 🔍

CVE: CVE-2004-1768 (🔍)
X-Force: 18530 - Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam Spamhunter denial of service
SecurityFocus: 12001 - Symantec Brightmail Multiple Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 13489 - Symantec Brightmail Denial of Service Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 12459 - Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam Spamhunter module UTF Conversion DoS

Entryinfo

Created: 02/27/2015 23:34
Updated: 07/16/2017 13:29
Changes: 02/27/2015 23:34 (56), 07/16/2017 13:29 (8)
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