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CVE-2005-3566

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-11-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in various ha commands of VERITAS Cluster Server for UNIX before 4.0MP2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long VCSI18N_LANG environment variable to (1) haagent, (2) haalert, (3) haattr, (4) hacli, (5) hacli_runcmd, (6) haclus, (7) haconf, (8) hadebug, (9) hagrp, (10) hahb, (11) halog, (12) hareg, (13) hares, (14) hastatus, (15) hasys, (16) hatype, (17) hauser, and (18) tststew.

Affected products

• Symantec Veritas Cluster Server: 2.2, 2.2_linux, 2.2_linux_mp1p1, 2.2_mp1, 2.2_mp2, 3.5 (+20)
• Symantec Veritas Sanpoint Control Quickstart: 3.5_solaris
• Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation: 1.0_aix, 2.2_linux, 2.2_vmware_esx, 3.0_aix, 3.4_aix, 3.5_hp-ux (+4)
• Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System: 4.0_aix, 4.0_linux, 4.0_solaris

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113199516516880&w=2
• http://osvdb.org/20673
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17502
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/174
• http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2005.11.08a.html
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015169
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15349
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2350
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22986
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113199516516880&w=2
• http://osvdb.org/20673
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17502

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