CVE-2008-0638

critical

Description

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.

References

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-007.html

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.20a.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25778

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488420/100/0/threaded

http://securitytracker.com/id?1019459

http://secunia.com/advisories/29050

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-02-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical