TITLE:
Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam MIME Processing Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17170

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/3656/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Brightmail AntiSpam, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in processing certain
malformed MIME content. This may be exploited to crash the "bmserver"
component and cause a DoS.

The vulnerability has been reported in the following versions:
* Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam  6.0.1
* Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam  6.0.2

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

The vendor recommends users with product versions prior to 6.0.1 to
upgrade to the latest product version.

Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.0.1:
Apply patch 162.
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/sba/sba_60x/updates/patch162.zip

Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.0.2:
Apply patch 161
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/sba/sba_60x/updates/patch161.zip

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2005.10.12d.html

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