National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0445

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#682110

Name: VU#682110

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/682110

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2004.05.12.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2004.05.12.html

External Source: XF

Name: symantec-firewall-dns-dos(16132)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/16132

External Source: BID

Name: 10336

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10336

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 11066

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/11066

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20040512 EEYE: Symantec Multiple Firewall DNS Response Denial-of-Service

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-May/021359.html

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 6100

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/6100

External Source: CIAC

Name: O-141

Hyperlink:http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-141.shtml

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1010146

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1010146

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1010145

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1010145

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1010144

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1010144