CVE-2011-0547

critical
Published 2011-08-19 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Multiple integer overflows in vxsvc.exe in the Veritas Enterprise Administrator service in Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 and earlier, Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System (SFCFS) 5.1 and earlier, Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System Enterprise for Oracle RAC (SFCFSORAC) 5.1 and earlier, Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) 5.1, and NetBackup PureDisk 6.5.x through 6.6.1.x allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted Unicode string, related to the vxveautil.value_binary_unpack function; (2) a crafted ASCII string, related to the vxveautil.value_binary_unpack function; or (3) a crafted value, related to the vxveautil.kv_binary_unpack function, leading to a buffer overflow.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
symantecveritas_dynamic_multi-pathing5.1
symantecveritas_storage_foundation{"endIncluding":"5.1"}
symantecveritas_storage_foundation5.0
symantecveritas_storage_foundation_cluster_file_system_for_oracle_rac{"endIncluding":"5.1"}
symantecveritas_storage_foundation_cluster_file_system_for_oracle_rac5.0
symantecnetbackup_puredisk6.5.0.1
symantecnetbackup_puredisk6.5.1
symantecnetbackup_puredisk6.5.1.1
symantecnetbackup_puredisk6.5.1.2
symantecnetbackup_puredisk6.6.1
symantecnetbackup_puredisk6.6.1.1
symantecnetbackup_puredisk6.6.1.2

References

CWEs

CWE-189

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.