ASA-2018-00004 – Veritas NetBackup Appliance: Use-after-free vulnerability in Veritas Backup Exec agents can lead to a denial of service or remote code execution

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ASA-2018-00004

Identifier(s)

ASA-2018-00004, CVE-2018-18652, VTS18-003

Title

Use-after-free vulnerability in Veritas Backup Exec agents can lead to a denial of service or remote code execution

Vendor(s)

Veritas

Product(s)

Veritas NetBackup Appliance

Affected version(s)

Veritas NetBackup Appliance 3.1.1 and earlier

Fixed version(s)

NetBackup Appliance 3.1.2

Description

Remote command execution vulnerability in Veritas NetBackup Appliance that allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary commands as root. This issue was caused by insufficient filtering of user provided input.

Technical details

Unknown

Reference(s)

VTS18-003: Remote command execution vulnerability in NetBackup Appliance
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS18-003.html

CVE-2018-18652
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-18652

CVE-2018-18652
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18652

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Last modified: February 1, 2019

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