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CVE-2008-0638

CVE information

Published

16 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

Description

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
9.3/10
Exploit Score
8.6/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:veritas_storage_foundation:5.0:*:aix:*:*:
  Yes
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cpe:2.3:a:symantec:veritas_storage_foundation:5.0:*:windows_
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:veritas_storage_foundation:5.0:*:solaris:
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:veritas_storage_foundation:5.0:64bit:wind
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:veritas_storage_foundation:5.0:*:linux:*:
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:veritas_storage_foundation:5.0:*:hp_ux:*:
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:veritas_storage_foundation:5.0:32bit:wind
  Yes
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