CVE-2008-0638

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) service (aka vxsvc.exe) in Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a packet with a crafted value of a certain size field, which is not checked for consistency with the actual buffer size.

Affected products

Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation: 5.0, 5.0-32bit, 5.0-64bit

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29050
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019459
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488420/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25778
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.20a.html
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-007.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29050
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019459
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488420/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25778
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.20a.html
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-007.html

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