CVE-2008-1979

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The Discovery Service (casdscvc) in CA ARCserve Backup 12.0.5454.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a packet with a large integer value used in an increment to TCP port 41523, which triggers a buffer over-read.

The Discovery Service (casdscvc) in CA ARCserve Backup 12.0.5454.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a packet with a large integer value used in an increment to TCP port 41523, which triggers a buffer over-read.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2008-04-27 20:05:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-11 20:38:00

Affected Software

Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/carcbackazz-adv.txt

Exploit

29855

Vendor Advisory

20080618 CA ARCserve Backup Discovery Service Denial of Service Vulnerability

28927

1020324

ADV-2008-1354

Vendor Advisory

ca-arcservebackup-casdscvc-dos(41869)

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