Symantec Enterprise Security Manager up to 6.5.x denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Symantec Enterprise Security Manager up to 6.5.x. This affects an unknown part of the component Manager. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-4314. No exploit exists. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Symantec Enterprise Security Manager up to 6.5.x. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Manager. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

The manager server in Symantec Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) 6 and 6.5.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via a malformed ESM agent request.

The bug was discovered 08/18/2006. The weakness was disclosed 08/22/2006 by Anthony Bettini (Agent) with McAfee (Website). The advisory is shared at securityresponse.symantec.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-4314 since 08/23/2006. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 4 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 115391 (Symantec Enterprise Security Manager Denial of Service Vulnerability).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at securityresponse.symantec.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (28524), SecurityFocus (BID 19580†), OSVDB (28108†), Secunia (SA21548†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1016728†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.7

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Recommended: Patch
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Patch: securityresponse.symantec.com

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: symantec.com

Advisory: securityresponse.symantec.com
Researcher: Anthony Bettini (Agent)
Organization: McAfee
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-4314 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-4314
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-2477
X-Force: 28524
SecurityFocus: 19580 - Symantec Enterprise Security Manager Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 21548 - Symantec Enterprise Security Manager Denial of Service, Less Critical
OSVDB: 28108 - Symantec Enterprise Security Manager Crafted ESM Agent Request DoS
SecurityTracker: 1016728
Vulnerability Center: 12651 - Symantec Enterprise Security Manager Race Condition Denial of Service via Malformed ESM Request, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-3353

Entryinfo

Created: 08/22/2006 17:15
Updated: 06/16/2025 14:15
Changes: 08/22/2006 17:15 (83), 06/24/2019 20:42 (1), 06/16/2025 14:15 (18)
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Cache ID: 216:6F8:103

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