Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Symantec Veritas NetBackup, which could be exploited by attackers or malicious users to execute arbitrary code.

The first issue is caused by an error in the Java Administration GUI (jnbSA), which could allow an authenticated but non-privileged user to execute commands which would normally require a higher privilege to execute.

Other vulnerabilities exist in the Scheduler component. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0718

Affected Products

Symantec Veritas NetBackup Enterprise Server versions prior to 5.1 MP7
Symantec Veritas NetBackup Enterprise Server versions prior to 6.0 MP7
Symantec Veritas NetBackup Enterprise Server versions prior to 6.5.2
Symantec Veritas NetBackup Server versions prior to 5.1 MP7
Symantec Veritas NetBackup Server versions prior to 6.0 MP7
Symantec Veritas NetBackup Server versions prior to 6.5.2

Solution

Upgrade to version 5.1 MP7, 6.0 MP7 or 6.5.2 :
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/308583.htm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2672
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.09.24a.html
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/308669.htm

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Kyle Noonan (Sun Microsystems) and JJ Reyes (Secunia Research).

ChangeLog

2008-09-25 : Initial release

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