CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-5408
9.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Buffer overflow in the data management protocol in Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers 11.0 (aka 11d) builds 6235 and 7170, 12.0 build 1364, and 12.5 build 2213 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors. NOTE: this can be exploited by unauthenticated remote attackers by leveraging CVE-2008-5407.
Affected configurations
• symantec backup exec for windows server 11d
• symantec backup exec for windows server 12.0
• symantec backup exec for windows server 12.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32810 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.11.19.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/314528.htm Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32346 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021246 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3209 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46731 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32810 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.11.19.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/314528.htm Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32346 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021246 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3209 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46731 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com