A vulnerability has been reported in Backup Exec, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to some boundary errors in the RPC interfaces of the Backup Exec Remote Agent and can be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows.

Successful exploitation crashes the service and may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Solution
Update to a fixed version (see vendor advisory for details).

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Nicolas Pouvesle, Tenable Network Security.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
Symantec:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2006.08.11.html

Other references
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