CVE-2012-0291
Symantec pcAnywhere through 12.5.3, Altiris IT Management Suite pcAnywhere Solution 7.0 (aka 12.5.x) and 7.1 (aka 12.6.x), Altiris Client Management Suite pcAnywhere Solution 7.0 (aka 12.5.x) and 7.1 (aka 12.6.x), and Altiris Deployment Solution Remote pcAnywhere Solution 7.1 (aka 12.5.x and 12.6.x) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or hang) via (1) malformed data from a client, (2) malformed data from a server, or (3) an invalid response.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 2.3% (83th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-0327)
- Published
- February 22, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-0327 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- symantec / altiris client management suite pcanywhere solution
- symantec / altiris deployment solution remote pcanywhere solution
- symantec / altiris it management suite pcanywhere solution
- symantec / altiris it management suite pcanywhere solution
- symantec / pcanywhere
- symantec / pcanywhere
- symantec / pcanywhere
- symantec / pcanywhere
- symantec / pcanywhere
- symantec / pcanywhere
- symantec / pcanywhere
- symantec / pcanywhere
- symantec / pcanywhere
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- symantec / pcanywhere
- symantec / pcanywhere
- symantec / pcanywhere
- symantec / pcanywhere
- symantec / pcanywhere
- symantec / pcanywhere
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- symantec / pcanywhere
References
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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