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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
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