CVE-2008-0638

Impact

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) service (aka vxsvc.exe) in Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a packet with a crafted value of a certain size field, which is not checked for consistency with the actual buffer size.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29050
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1019459
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488420/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25778
• http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.20a.html
• http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-007.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29050
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1019459
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488420/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25778
• http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.20a.html
• http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-007.html