Description: A vulnerability has been reported in EMC Retrospect Client for Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an assertion error in the backup client and can be exploited to cause it to terminate by sending a specially crafted packet to port 497/tcp.
The vulnerability affects versions 6.5 and 7.0 for Windows.
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