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TITLE:
Symantec Products Veritas VRTSweb Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37631

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37631/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in various Symantec products, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable
system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an improper authentication
mechanism in the VRTSweb component when processing requests sent to
port 14300. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code via a
specially crafted request.

Please see the vendor's advisory for a list of affected products.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches or update to the latest version (please see the
vendor's advisory for a patch matrix).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
An anonymous person, reported via ZDI.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Symantec SYM09-017:
http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2009&suid=20091209_00
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/337930.htm
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/336988.htm
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/337293.htm
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/337279.htm
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/337859.htm
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/337392.htm

ZDI:
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-098/

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