CVE-2008-5426

Summary

CVECVE-2008-5426
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-12-11 15:30:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-11 20:55:00 UTC
DescriptionKaspersky Internet Security Suite 2009 does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many "Content-type: message/rfc822;" headers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption or other resource consumption) via a large e-mail message, a related issue to CVE-2006-1173.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-399

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Internet Security Suite 2009 All All All
Application Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Internet Security Suite 2009 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
DoS attacks on MIME-capable software via complex MIME emails - CXSecurity.com SREASON securityreason.com
AttackIntro < Main < TWiki MISC mime.recurity.com Exploit
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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