CVE-2004-1768: Symantec Brightmail Antispam

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The character converters in the Spamhunter and Language ID modules for Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.0.1 before patch 132 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via messages with the ISO-8859-10 character set, which is not recognized by the converters.

Affected products

• Symantec Brightmail Antispam: version 6.0.1 only

Published 2004-12-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.