FrSIRT - CA ARCserve Backup "casdscvc" Denial of Service Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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CA ARCserve Backup "casdscvc" Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : CA ARCserve Backup "casdscvc" Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2008-1354
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1979
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-25

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in CA ARCserve Backup, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error in the Discovery service (casdscvc) when processing specially crafted packets sent to port 41523/TCP, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a vulnerable application to crash or restart, creating a denial of service condition.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Luigi Auriemma.

ChangeLog

2008-04-25 : Initial release
2008-06-18 : Updated Solution

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