CVE-2008-5426

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional 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

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

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