Symantec Norton Antivirus 2002/2003 Directory resource consumption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Symantec Norton Antivirus 2002/2003. It has been classified as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Directory Handler. Performing a manipulation results in resource consumption. This vulnerability was named CVE-2004-0683. In addition, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Symantec Norton Antivirus 2002/2003 (Anti-Malware Software). It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown code block of the component Directory Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2002 and 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a compressed archive that contains a large number of directories.

The weakness was presented 07/10/2004 by Bipin Gautam (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-0683 since 07/12/2004. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 38323 (Symantec Norton AntiVirus Large Directory Denial of Service Vulnerability).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (16658), Exploit-DB (312), SecurityFocus (BID 10686†), OSVDB (14843†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-5873†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Resource consumption
CWE: CWE-400 / CWE-404
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07/12/2004 +2 days 🔍
08/06/2004 +25 days 🔍
11/22/2004 +108 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: symantec.com

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Bipin Gautam
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-0683 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-0683
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-22083
X-Force: 16658
SecurityFocus: 10686 - Symantec Norton Antivirus Denial Of Service Vulnerability
OSVDB: 14843 - Symantec Norton Anti-Virus Malformed Compressed Archive DoS
Vulnerability Center: 5873 - DoS in Symantec Norton AntiVirus via Compressed Archive File, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 12/18/2014 15:43
Updated: 07/12/2025 17:19
Changes: 12/18/2014 15:43 (67), 05/26/2019 07:37 (1), 07/12/2025 17:19 (22)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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