FKIE_CVE-2008-0638

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-02-21 20:44 - Updated: 2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
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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  "lastModified": "2025-04-09T00:30:58.490",
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