12458 : Symantec Brightmail Sieve Module Memory Exhaustion DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2004-12-17

Description

Brightmail AntiSpam contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is because the Sieve module fails to recognize malformed RFC 822 MIME attachment boundaries and is triggered by an attacker sending several attachments with malformed boundaries causing Brightmail to consume large amounts of memory, and will result in loss of availability for the service.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified
OSVDB: Security Software

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, Symantec has released a patch to address this vulnerability.

Products

Symantec Corporation

Brightmail AntiSpam

6.0.1

References

Related OSVDB ID: 12459
Secunia Advisory ID: 13489
ISS X-Force ID: 18530
CVE ID: 2004-1768 (see also: NVD)
CERT VU: 697598
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/sba/sba_60x/updates/p132_notes.htm
Other Advisory URL: ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/sba/sba_60x/updates/p134_notes.htm
Vendor Specific Solution URL: ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/sba/sba_60x/updates/Patch134.zip

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-05-30 | Disagree?

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