S/MIME Protocol Vulnerabilities: Denial of Service and Arbitrary Code Execution

CVE-2003-0564 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Multiple vulnerabilities in multiple vendor implementations of the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) protocol allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via an S/MIME email message containing certain unexpected ASN.1 constructs, as demonstrated using the NISSC test suite.

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