A vulnerability has been identified in CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup, 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 the Tape Engine service (tapeeng.exe) when processing malformed RPC packets (port 6502/TCP), which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash a vulnerable application or compromise an affected system.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by LSsecurity
ChangeLog
2006-11-22 : Initial release
2007-01-12 : Updated Solution
2007-03-15 : Updated References
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