Vulnerability CVE-2004-0445
Published: 2004-07-07   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The SYMDNS.SYS driver in Symantec Norton Internet Security and Professional 2002 through 2004, Norton Personal Firewall 2002 through 2004, Norton AntiSpam 2004, Client Firewall 5.01 and 5.1.1, and Client Security 1.0 through 2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption from infinite loop) via a DNS response with a compressed name pointer that points to itself.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.6/10
2.9/10
4.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Symantec -> Client firewall 
Symantec -> Client security 
Symantec -> Norton antispam 
Symantec -> Norton internet security 
Symantec -> Norton personal firewall 

 References:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/682110
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2004.05.12.html
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/16132
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10336
http://secunia.com/advisories/11066
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-May/021359.html
http://www.osvdb.org/6100
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-141.shtml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010146
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010145
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010144
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