National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-3104
Original release date:09/08/2009
Last revised:02/07/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2005 through 2008; Norton Internet Security 2005 through 2008; AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.0 before MR7, 10.0, 10.1 before MR8, and 10.2 before MR3; and Client Security 2.0 before MR7, 3.0, and 3.1 before MR8; when Internet Email Scanning is installed and enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and persistent connection loss) via unknown attack vectors.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: XF
Name: symantec-email-scan-dos(52820)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-2449
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2009&suid=20090826_01
External Source: BID
Name: 34670
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36493
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 57429
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)