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CVE-2004-0445
The SYMDNS.SYS driver in Symantec Norton Internet Security and Professional 2002 through 2004, Norton Personal Firewall 2002 through 2004,…
Low2.6EPSS 11.0%
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- mitre
Description
The SYMDNS.SYS driver in Symantec Norton Internet Security and Professional 2002 through 2004, Norton Personal Firewall 2002 through 2004, Norton AntiSpam 2004, Client Firewall 5.01 and 5.1.1, and Client Security 1.0 through 2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption from infinite loop) via a DNS response with a compressed name pointer that points to itself.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.0% · top 4.1% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.6.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- 1010146 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1010145 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- O-141 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIACx_transferred
- VU#682110 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 6100 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- symantec-firewall-dns-dos(16132) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2004.05.12.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20040512 EEYE: Symantec Multiple Firewall DNS Response Denial-of-Service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 1010144 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 11066 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 10336 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .