CVE-2002-2206 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2002-2206?

CVE-2002-2206 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Symantec Norton Antivirus, published on 16 Nov 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The POP3 proxy service (POPROXY.EXE) in Norton AntiVirus 2001 allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via a long username with multiple /localhost entries.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-2206?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Symantec Norton Antivirus.

How do I fix CVE-2002-2206?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-2206 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2002-2206 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-2206 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Symantec Norton Antivirus

• CVE-2005-2017 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-0487 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2006-3456 Code injection in n/a High 8.5
• CVE-2002-1774 Security feature bypass in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2002-1775 Security feature bypass in n/a High 7.5

All Symantec Norton Antivirus vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-f5f2-44mf-667j.