CVE-2001-0598: Symantec Norton Ghost

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Symantec Ghost 6.5 and earlier allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service by sending large (> 45Kb) amounts of data to the Ghost Configuration Server on port 1347, which triggers an error that is not properly handled.

Affected products

• Symantec Norton Ghost: up to and including 6.5

Published 2001-08-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.