SYMSA1089

Symantec Backup Exec, Continuous Protection Server and NBU for NetWare Media Server Options: Applica

Last Updated March 17, 2006
Initial Publication Date March 17, 2006
  • Status: Closed
  • Severity: Medium
  • CVSS Base Score: 5.0

During internal reviews of supported Backup Exec, Backup Exec Continuous Protection Server and NetBackup for NetWare Media Server Options products and versions, Symantec identified and fixed memory errors that could result in a process crash or a denial of service (DoS) preventing ongoing backup capability until Backup services are restarted.

Risk Impact
Medium

Remote Access

Yes

Local Access

No

Authentication Required

No

Exploit publicly available

No

 

Product

Version

Solution

Backup Exec for Windows Server Remote Agent

9.1

HotFix Available

Backup Exec for Windows Server Remote Agent

10.0

HotFix Available

Backup Exec for Windows Server Remote Agent

10.1

HotFix Available

Backup Exec for NetWare Servers

9.1

HotFix Available

Backup Exec for NetWare Servers

9.2

HotFix Available

Backup Exec for NetWare Servers Remote Agent

9.1

HotFix Available

Backup Exec for NetWare Servers Remote Agent

9.2

HotFix Available

Remote Agent for Linux Servers

10.0

HotFix Available

Remote Agent for Linux Servers

10.1

HotFix Available

NetBackup for NetWare Media Server Option

4.5MP

HotFix Available

NetBackup for NetWare Media Server Option

4.5FP

HotFix Available

NetBackup for NetWare Media Server Option

5.0

HotFix Available

NetBackup for NetWare Media Server Option

5.1

HotFix Available

NetBackup for NetWare Media Server Option

6.0

HotFix Available

Backup Exec Continuous Protection Server Remote Agent for Windows Server

10.1.325.6301

HotFix Available

Backup Exec Continuous Protection Server Remote Agent for Windows Server

10.1.326.1401

HotFix Available

Backup Exec Continuous Protection Server Remote Agent for Windows Server

10.1.326.2501

HotFix Available


NOTE: ONLY the products and versions listed above are affected by these issues.

Product versions prior to those listed above are NOT supported. Customers running legacy product versions should upgrade and apply updates.

Details
Symantec engineers resolved issues discovered during internal review in which malformed input could potentially cause memory access violations or exhaust system resources. Any of these issues could cause a process crash or DoS and temporary loss of backup capability. In the majority of issues, the affected service would need to be restarted to regain operational capability. In the case of the NetBackup for NetWare Media Server Option products, this can result in the system abending requiring a restart to recover.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) initiative has assigned CVE Candidate CVE-2006-1297 to this issue.
This issue is a candidate for inclusion in the CVE list (http://cve.mitre.org), which standardizes names for security problems

Symantec Response
Security updates are available for all supported affected products. Symantec recommends all customers apply the latest updates for their supported product versions to protect against these types of threats.

Symantec knows of no adverse customer impact from this issue.

The patches listed above for affected products and agents are available from:
http://support.veritas.com/docs/282255

The patches for affected NetBackup for NetWare Media Server Option products are available from:
http://support.veritas.com/docs/282274

The patches listed above for affected Backup Exec Continuous Protection Server builds are available from:
http://support.veritas.com/docs/283601.htm

Best Practices
As part of normal best practices, Symantec recommends:

  • Restrict access to administration or management systems to privileged users.
  • Restrict remote access, if required, to trusted/authorized systems only.
  • Run under the principle of least privilege where possible to limit the impact of exploit by threats such as this.
  • Keep all operating systems and applications updated with the latest vendor patches.
  • Follow a multi-layered approach to security. Run both firewall and antivirus applications, at a minimum, to provide multiple points of detection and protection to both inbound and outbound threats.
  • Deploy network intrusion detection systems to monitor network traffic for signs of anomalous or suspicious activity. This may aid in detection of attacks or malicious activity related to exploitation of latent vulnerabilities

Revision History
3/24/2006 - Updated advisory to include NetBackup for NetWare Media Servers Option versions as affected with solution download locations.
6/ 5/2006 - Revised to include the Backup Exec Continuous Protection Server (CPS) as an affected product.

SYM06-004

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