Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 vxschedservice.exe input validation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file vxschedservice.exe. This manipulation causes input validation. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2007-4516. There is no available exploit. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the file vxschedservice.exe. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Volume Manager Scheduler Service (aka VxSchedService.exe) in Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 for Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or hang) via malformed packets.

The bug was discovered 02/20/2008. The weakness was presented 02/21/2008 by iDefense Labs with iDEFENSE Labs (Website). The advisory is shared at symantec.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2007-4516 since 08/23/2007. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 31862 (Veritas Storage Foundation Multiple Service Remote DoS (SYM08-004)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Denial of Service and running in the context r.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (40731), Tenable (31862), SecurityFocus (BID 27440†), OSVDB (41977†) and Secunia (SA29033†). See VDB-41174 for similar entry. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Input validation
CWE: CWE-20
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Nessus ID: 31862
Nessus Name: Veritas Storage Foundation Multiple Service Remote DoS (SYM08-004)
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: symantec.com
Researcher: iDefense Labs
Organization: iDEFENSE Labs
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2007-4516 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-4516
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-41173
X-Force: 40731
SecurityFocus: 27440 - Symantec Storage Foundation for Windows Scheduler Service Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 29033
OSVDB: 41977 - Symantec - Storage Foundation for Windows - Scheduler Service Denial of Service Issue
SecurityTracker: 1019458
Vulnerability Center: 18231 - Symantec Storage Foundation Denial of Service in the Volume Manager Scheduler Service, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2008-0624

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Created: 03/16/2015 13:43
Updated: 08/08/2019 18:11
Changes: 03/16/2015 13:43 (69), 08/08/2019 18:11 (12)
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