01 Record
CVE-2008-0638
Heap-based buffer overflow in the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) service (aka vxsvc.exe) in Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) service (aka vxsvc.exe) in Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 5.95% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-02-21 20:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 07:54Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-02-06
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 2b2fa3be5ac566782280c89f6f0ef12737fe4e415e7da5142c648b9923090653
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.symantec.comhttp://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.20a.html
- securitytracker.com1019459http://securitytracker.com/id?1019459
- secunia.com29050http://secunia.com/advisories/29050
- www.securityfocus.com25778http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25778
- www.zerodayinitiative.comhttp://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-007.html
- www.securityfocus.com20080220 ZDI-08-007: Symantec VERITAS Storage Foundation Administrator Service Heap Overflow Vulnerabilityhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488420/100/0/threaded