__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Symantec Backup Exec Scheduler ActiveX Control Multiple Vulnerabilities [Security Focus 28008] March 4, 2008 15:00 GMT Number S-215 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Symantec Backup Exec is prone to multiple vulnerabilities that allow attackers to overwrite arbitrary files. PLATFORM: Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers 12.0 and 11d DAMAGE: Attacker can overwrite arbitrary files. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. An attacker can exploit these issues by ASSESSMENT: enticing an unsuspecting victim to view a malicious HTML page. Successfully exploiting these issues will allow the attacker to corrupt and overwrite arbitrary files on the victim's computer in the context of the vulnerable application using the ActiveX control (typically Internet Explorer). ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/s-215.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28008/discuss ADDITIONAL LINK: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26904/discuss CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2007-6017 CVE-2007-6016 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start Security Focus 28008 *****] Symantec Backup Exec Scheduler ActiveX Control Multiple Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerabilities Symantec Backup Exec is prone to multiple vulnerabilities that allow attackers overwrite arbitrary files. An attacker can exploit these issues by enticing an unsuspecting victim to view a malicious HTML page. Successfully exploiting these issues will allow the attacker to corrupt and overwrite arbitrary files on the victim's computer in the context of the vulnerable application using the ActiveX control (typically Internet Explorer). Bugtraq ID: 28008 Class: Input Validation Error CVE: CVE-2007-6017 Remote: Yes Local: No Published: Feb 28 2008 12:00AM Updated: Feb 29 2008 04:52PM Credit: JJ Reyes of Secunia Research is credited with the discovery of these issues. Vulnerable: Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers 12.0 Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers 11d [***** End Security Focus 28008 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Security Focus for the information contained in this bulletin. _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capability, is the computer security incident response team for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the emergency backup response team for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). CIAC is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. CIAC is also a founding member of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, a global organization established to foster cooperation and coordination among computer security teams worldwide. CIAC services are available to DOE, DOE contractors, and the NIH. 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