FKIE_CVE-2009-0538
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-03-18 15:30 - Updated: 2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
Format string vulnerability in Symantec pcAnywhere before 12.5 SP1 allows local users to read and modify arbitrary memory locations, and cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact, via format string specifiers in the pathname of a remote control file (aka .CHF file).
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| symantec | pcanywhere | * | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 10.0 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 10.5 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 11.0 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 11.0.1 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 11.5 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 11.5.1 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 12.0 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 12.1 |
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