CVE-2004-1768

high

Description

The character converters in the Spamhunter and Language ID modules for Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.0.1 before patch 132 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via messages with the ISO-8859-10 character set, which is not recognized by the converters.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18530

http://www.osvdb.org/12459

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/697598

http://secunia.com/advisories/13489

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2004-12-17

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01646