TITLE:
Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam Notifier Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13593

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13593/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

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

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

The Notifier component may crash during generation of a Notifier
email message when a large amount of new spam messages are placed in
quarantine.

The weakness has been reported in version 6.0.1.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch 138:
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/sba/sba_60x/updates/Patch138.zip

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/sba/sba_60x/updates/p138_notes.htm

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