An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup through 8.2 and related Veritas products. An attacker with local access can delete arbitrary files by leveraging a path traversal in the pbxexchange registration code.

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup through 8.2 and related Veritas products. An attacker with local access can send a crafted packet to pbxexchange during registration and cause a NULL pointer exception, effectively crashing the pbxexchange process.