CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.3. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2008-5426
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.3
EPSS
1.24%
Original NVD Description
Kaspersky Internet Security Suite 2009 does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many "Content-type: message/rfc822;" headers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption or other resource consumption) via a large e-mail message, a related issue to CVE-2006-1173.