CVE-2008-0638 (GCVE-0-2008-0638)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-02-21 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 07:54
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Summary
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.
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