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.

Veritas Storage Foundation, a storage management solution from Symantec is installed on the remote host.

The installed version is reportedly affected by a denial of service vulnerability. By sending specially crafted IP packets to TCP port 4888, an unauthenticated attacker may be able to cause a denial of service condition and crash the scheduler service.

In addition the Administration service may also be affected by a heap overflow vulnerability.

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2008-0638

critical

Tenable Plugins

low