Overview
VERITAS Storage Exec contains several buffer overflows, which may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.
Description
VERITAS Storage Exec is software package that performs storage management. Multiple DCOM server components provided by Storage Exec contain buffer overflow vulnerabilities. These DCOM server components are accessible by their associated ActiveX controls. |
Impact
By convincing a user to view a specially crafted HTML document (e.g., a web page or an HTML email message), an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user. The attacker could also cause Internet Explorer (or the program using the WebBrowser control) to crash. |
Solution
Apply a patch or upgrade This issue is addressed by VERITAS Storage Exec 5.3 Hotfix 9. |
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Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
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References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Symantec for reporting this vulnerability, who in turn credit Mark Litchfield of NGSSoftware.
This document was written by Will Dormann.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | None |
| Severity Metric: | 14.34 |
| Date Public: | 2005-09-20 |
| Date First Published: | 2005-09-22 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2005-09-22 14:41 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 10 |