McAfee GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange on Exchange Server 2000, and possibly other anti-virus or anti-spam products from McAfee or other vendors, does not scan X- headers for malicious content, which allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a crafted message, as demonstrated by a message with an X-Testing header and no message body.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-1488 McAfee GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange on Exchange Server 2000, and possibly other anti-virus or anti-spam products from McAfee or other vendors, does not scan X- headers for malicious content, which allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a crafted message, as demonstrated by a message with an X-Testing header and no message body.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:13:25.560Z

Reserved: 2009-04-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-1491

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-05-05T19:30:00.203

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-1491

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