CVE-2008-0638: Buffer Overflow

First published: Thu Feb 21 2008(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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