# CVE-2004-0920: Denial of service in n/a

> Attackers can crash Symantec Norton AntiVirus or bypass detection by using filenames with MS-DOS device names, requiring user interaction to process the file.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 6 Oct 2004
- **Updated:** 8 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-9fw8-vjhf-78p8

## What is CVE-2004-0920?

CVE-2004-0920 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Symantec Norton Antivirus, published on 6 Oct 2004. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004, and earlier versions, allows a virus or other malicious code to avoid detection or cause a denial of service (application crash) using a filename containing an MS-DOS device name.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-0920?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Symantec Norton Antivirus.

## How do I fix CVE-2004-0920?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-0920 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2004-0920 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-0920 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Symantec Norton Antivirus

- [CVE-2005-2017](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2005-2017/): Privilege escalation in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2004-0487](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0487/): Other in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2006-3456](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-3456/): Code injection in n/a (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2002-2206](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2002-2206/): Denial of service in n/a (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2002-1774](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2002-1774/): Security feature bypass in n/a (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2004-0920 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2004-0920 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Symantec Norton Antivirus, published on 6 Oct 2004. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-0920 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Symantec Norton Antivirus. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0920/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0920/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-0920
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0920
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2004-0920

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0920/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.