CVE-2008-5426

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.3
Exploit probability—
ProductKaspersky Lab Kaspersky Internet Security Suite
PublishedDec 11, 2008
First seenDec 11, 2008

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
kaspersky_lab kaspersky_internet_security_suite2009—

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