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TITLE:
Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation Scheduler Service Denial of
Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29033

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29033/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/14406/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Symantec Veritas Storage
Foundation, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in the
Veritas Scheduler service (VxSchedService.exe) and can be exploited
to cause the service to crash via specially crafted packets sent to
default port 4888/TCP.

The vulnerability affects version 5.0 on Windows.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Version 5.0 on 32-bit Windows 2000/2003:
http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/297166

Version 5.0 on 64-bit Windows 2000/2003:
http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/297167

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered by an anonymous researcher and reported via iDefense Labs.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SYM08-004:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.20.html

iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=665

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