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CVE-2008-0638

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2008-02-21 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References