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TITLE:
Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation Administrator Service Buffer
Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29050

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29050/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/14406/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Symantec Veritas Storage
Foundation, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in the
Administrator Service and can be exploited to cause a heap-based
buffer overflow via a specially crafted packet sent to default port
3207/UDP.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability affects version 5.0 on Windows and UNIX/Linux.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Version 5.0 on 32-bit Windows 2000/2003:
http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/297166

Version 5.0 on 64-bit Windows 2000/2003:
http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/297167

Version 5.0 on Solaris/HP-UX/Linux/AIX:
http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/297464

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered by Sebastian Apelt and reported via ZDI.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SYM08-005:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.20a.html

ZDI-08-007:
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-007.html

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