A vulnerability has been identified in VERITAS NetBackup, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in a shared library used by the volume manager daemon (vmd) that does not properly handle specially crafted requests (port 13701), which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with root/SYSTEM privileges.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by iDefense Labs
ChangeLog
2005-11-08 : Initial release
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