From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Jun 04 2007 - 14:02:06 CDT

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TITLE:
Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation Scheduler Service Authentication
Bypass

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25537

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25537/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
From local network

SOFTWARE:
Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/14406/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Symantec Veritas Storage
Foundation, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass
certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the Scheduler
Service (VxSchedService.exe) server and can be exploited to bypass
the built-in authentication in the management console.

Successful exploitation allows an attacker to e.g. add arbitrary
commands to the registry, which could be executed during scheduled
runs.

The vulnerability affects Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation for
Windows version 5.0.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch.
http://support.veritas.com/docs/288627

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits the Zero Day Initiative.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Symantec:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.06.01.html

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