Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004 ActiveX Control denial of service

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004 (Anti-Malware Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component ActiveX Control. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A certain ActiveX control in Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary programs.

The bug was discovered 05/20/2004. The weakness was presented 05/20/2004 by Yuu Arai with Little eArth Corporation (Website). The advisory is shared for download at sarc.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-0487 since 05/20/2004. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

After 1 days, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at symantec.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 31361.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (16220). securityfocus.com is providing further details. See VDB-863, VDB-910, VDB-972 and VDB-973 for similar entries.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: symantec.com
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: symantec.com

Advisory: sarc.com
Researcher: Yuu Arai
Organization: Little eArth Corporation
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2004-0487 (🔍)
X-Force: 16220 - Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004 ActiveX code execution, High Risk
Vulnerability Center: 5438 - Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004 ActiveX Control Enables Code Execution, Medium
SecurityFocus: 10392 - Symantec Norton AntiVirus ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 11676 - Symantec Norton AntiVirus ActiveX Control Vulnerability, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 6303 - Symantec Norton Anti-Virus ActiveX Control Input Validation

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 05/25/2004 12:52
Updated: 06/28/2019 13:00
Changes: 05/25/2004 12:52 (89), 06/28/2019 13:00 (2)
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Cache ID: 52:7CF:103

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