CVE-2008-0638
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 6.0%EU EUVD
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 packet with a crafted value of a certain size field, which is not checked for consistency with the actual buffer size.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 6.0% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-0648)
- Published
- February 21, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-0648 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- symantec / veritas storage foundation
- symantec / veritas storage foundation
- symantec / veritas storage foundation
- symantec / veritas storage foundation
- symantec / veritas storage foundation
- symantec / veritas storage foundation
- symantec / veritas storage foundation
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29050
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1019459
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488420/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25778(Patch)
- http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.20a.html(Patch)
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-007.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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