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Vulnerabilities: Norton AntiVirus 2002 ASCII Control Character Denial Of Service

Mar 8, 2004 8:30AM PST

Monday, March 08 @ 15:06:48 PST
Source: securityfocus.com

Norton AntiVirus 2002 has been reported to crash when performing manual scans on files contained in certain folders. This is related to how the software handles ASCII control characters (represented by decimal values in the range of 1-31).

Read more: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9811/discussion/

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