CVE-2005-0922: Symantec Norton Antivirus

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unknown vulnerability in the Auto-Protect module in Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004 and 2005, as also used in Internet Security 2004/2005 and System Works 2004/2005, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (system hang or crash) by triggering a scan of a certain file type.

Affected products

• Symantec Norton Antivirus: version 2.1 only; version 2005 only
• Symantec Norton Internet Security: version 2004 only; version 2005 only
• Symantec Norton System Works: version 2004_professional only; version 2005_premier only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.