CVE-2007-1689 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Buffer overflow in the ISAlertDataCOM ActiveX control in ISLALERT.DLL for Norton Personal Firewall 2004 and Internet Security 2004 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the (1) Get and (2) Set functions.

Published: 2007-05-16

Score: 10.0 Critical

EPSS: 79.0% High

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_internet_security:2004:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_personal_firewall:2004:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.7904.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://osvdb.org/36164
http://secunia.com/advisories/25290
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/983953
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/468779/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23936
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018073
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.05.16.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1843
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34328

History

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Subscriptions

Symantec Norton Internet Security Norton Personal Firewall

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: certcc

Published: 2007-05-16T20:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T13:06:26.012Z

Reserved: 2007-03-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-1689

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-05-16T20:30:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-1689

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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