National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5426
Original release date:12/11/2008
Last revised:01/29/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20081209 Re: DoS attacks on MIME-capable software via complex MIME emails
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20081208 DoS attacks on MIME-capable software via complex MIME emails
External Source: SREASON
Name: 4721
External Source: MISC
Name: http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro