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>> Symantec Mail Security Executable Attachment Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : Symantec Mail Security Executable Attachment Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-2335
CVE ID : CVE-2007-1792
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-06-26


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A vulnerability has been identified in Symantec Mail Security, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by boundary errors in the SMS Filter Hub service when parsing executable files attached to filtered emails, which could be exploited by attackers or malware to crash an affected application via a specially crafted email, creating a denial of service condition.

Affected Products

Symantec Mail Security for SMTP version 5.0.0
Symantec Mail Security for SMTP version 5.0.1
Symantec Mail Security Appliance version 5.0.x

Solution

Symantec Mail Security for SMTP - Upgrade to version 5.0.1 and apply patch 181.

Symantec Mail Security Appliance - Upgrade to version 5.0.0-36 or later.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2335
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.06.26.html
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-48/advisory

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Dyon Balding (Secunia Research).

ChangeLog

2007-06-26 : Initial release

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