CVE-2008-5426 | BDVDB-2026-33799 Detail

Description#

Kaspersky 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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4721
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12008-12-11Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-07Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.