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Symantec Norton AntiVirus Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA14741
Release Date: 2005-03-29
Last Update: 2005-03-31
Popularity: 16,960 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004
Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2005
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2004 Professional
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2005
Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2004
Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2005

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Description:
Isamu Noguchi has reported two vulnerabilities in Symantec Norton AntiVirus, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An unspecified error in the Auto-Protect module during scan of specific file types can be exploited to cause the system to hang or crash.

2) An error in the SmartScan feature in Auto-Protect, when a file located on a network share is renamed, can be exploited to consume a large amount of CPU resources or cause a system crash.

The following products are affected:
* Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004
* Symantec Norton Internet Security 2004 (Professional)
* Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2004 (Professional)
* Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2005
* Symantec Norton Internet Security 2005
* Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2005 (Premier)

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