Vulnerability Note VU#875633

Symantec Mail Security for SMTP arbitrary code execution vulnerability

Overview

Symantec Mail Security for SMTP contains a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, or create a denial of service condition.

I. Description

Symantec Mail Security for SMTP is an antispam, antivirus, and content filtering software package that scans email.

Symantec Mail Security for SMTP contains a vulnerability that occurs when processing mail messages with malformed headers. An attacker may be able to exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted email message through a vulnerable system.

II. Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code, or create a denial of service condition.

III. Solution

Upgrade

Symantec has issued patch 175 to address this and other issues. See the 175 release notes for more details.

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Symantec, Inc.	Vulnerable	1-Mar-2007

References

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/products/overview.jsp?pcid=1008&pvid=845_1
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/symantec_mail_security/5.0_smtp/updates/
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/symantec_mail_security/5.0_smtp/updates/release_notes_p175.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/24371/

Credit

Thanks to Steve Arvanitis for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

Other Information

Date Public:	2007-02-09
Date First Published:	2007-03-01
Date Last Updated:	2007-03-02
CERT Advisory:
CVE-ID(s):
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US-CERT Technical Alerts:
Metric:	2.10
Document Revision:	13

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