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A vulnerability has been reported in VERITAS Backup Exec and NetBackup, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to the product using a static password when authenticating to the remote agent. This makes it possible to bypass the authentication process and download arbitrary files from a vulnerable system.

The vendor reports the following products as vulnerable (other versions may also be affected):
* VERITAS Backup Exec for Windows Servers 9.0 (all builds)
* VERITAS Backup Exec for Windows Servers 9.1 (all builds)
* VERITAS Backup Exec for Windows Servers 10.0 (all builds)
* VERITAS Backup Exec Remote Agent for Windows Server
* VERITAS Backup Exec Remote Agent for Unix/Linux Server
* VERITAS Backup Exec for NetWare Servers 9.1 (all builds)
* VERITAS Backup Exec Remote Agent for NetWare Server
* VERITAS NetBackup for NetWare Media Server Option 4.5 (all builds)
* VERITAS NetBackup for NetWare Media Server Option 4.5 FP (all builds)
* VERITAS NetBackup for NetWare Media Server Option 5.0 (all builds)
* VERITAS NetBackup for NetWare Media Server Option 5.1 (all builds)

NOTE: An exploit is publicly available.

Solution
Apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Discovered by anonymous person.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
Symantec:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/14551.html
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2005.08.12b.html

Other references
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Deep Links
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