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Secunia Security Advisory 21472

Secunia Security Advisory 21472
Posted Aug 17, 2006
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

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.

tags | advisory, denial of service
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Secunia Security Advisory 21472

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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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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/

Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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