Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Backup Exec, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Backup Exec Remote Agent RPC Interface Buffer Overflows
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21472
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21472/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
System access, DoS
WHERE:
>From local network
SOFTWARE:
VERITAS Backup Exec 9.x
http://secunia.com/product/460/
VERITAS Backup Exec Remote Agent 9.x for Windows Servers
http://secunia.com/product/7808/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Backup Exec, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or
compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to some boundary errors in the RPC
interfaces of the Backup Exec Remote Agent and can be exploited to
cause heap-based buffer overflows.
Successful exploitation crashes the service and may allow execution
of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability has been reported in the following versions:
* Backup Exec 9.1 for Netware Servers Remote Agent for Windows
Servers (all builds)
* Backup Exec 9.2 for NetWare Servers Remote Agent for Windows
Servers (all builds)
SOLUTION:
Update to a fixed version.
Backup Exec 9.1.1158.9 for NetWare Servers with RAWS 4691.42 Hotfix
58 (English, French, German):
http://support.veritas.com/docs/284643
Backup Exec 9.2.1401.3 for NetWare Servers with RAWS 5629.3 Hotfix 34
(English, French, German):
http://support.veritas.com/docs/284642
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Tenable Network Security.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Symantec:
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/284623.htm
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